Alice In Wonderland Pantomime Script Spotlight
Alice In Wonderland, BATS Panto Players
We're all mad about this one!
Alice In Wonderland arrives with more familiar set pieces than almost any panto story: the tea party, the Queen's enthusiasm for beheading, the Cheshire Cat's grin. Our version gives those pieces a proper spine: a Cheshire Cat who narrates throughout in rhyming verse, keeping the audience in her confidence from the first scene; a Dame with genuine plot purpose, baking tarts the Queen actually needs; Tweedles who function as accidental henchmen rather than decorative confusion; and a Jabberwocky whose resolution is the last thing anyone expects.
Synopsis
Alice tumbles into Wonderland, landing alongside Duchess Battenberg, the Royal Baker, who has tarts to make and a Queen to appease. The Queen of Hearts has tired of having her beheadings commuted by the King and has turned to the Jabberwocky, a creature deep in the woods, to handle things more permanently.
The Tweedles are causing confusion, the Mad Hatter's tea party has run out of everything, and the Cheshire Cat is watching it all from the shadows. When the Queen turns the Jabberwocky on Alice and her friends, the solution turns out to have been in the Duchess's apron all along. As the Cheshire Cat puts it: I'll stay, though we're leaving. Now that's contrariwise!
Alice In Wonderland, BATS Panto Players
A Taste of the Script
Alice has just arrived and needs some geographical context:
Alice: 'Where’s Wonderland?'
Duchess Battenberg: 'It's just below somewhere, slightly above Impossible, and a bit to the left of Perfectly Normal.'
Alice: 'That's not a real place.'
Duchess Battenberg: 'Yet here you are!'
Who this script suits
With 14 principal roles and named featured parts for the Playing Card Guard, Alice in Wonderland sits firmly in the large cast range. The ensemble plays Cards, citizens, guards and ghosts across both acts, with the Tea Party and Ghost scenes offering good featured ensemble moments.
The Cheshire Cat acts as a narrator/guide for Alice and the Audience and speaks in rhyming verse across multiple scenes and requiring a performer genuinely comfortable with sustained direct audience address throughout rather than just during audience participation sequences. Alice carries both the comedy and the emotional arc of the story. The Tweedles suit performers who enjoy a committed double act with physical silliness at its core, and the Jabberwocky can be played by a child, which makes this a strong option for youth theatre groups with younger members to feature. The Mad Hatter's tea party, with its cheerful misdirection and perpetually running-out supplies, rewards a performer with strong instincts for comic timing.
The "piece of cake" running gag, introduced early in Act One and threaded through to the finale, is the kind of device that rewards an engaged, well-timed company. Groups who enjoy proper audience participation alongside a story with genuine stakes will find this one delivers both.
Alice In Wonderland Reviews
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