Hansel and Gretel Pantomime Script
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Dame Kitty Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes. Unfortunately, so does the witch.
When Stinkworth delivers Hansel and Gretel straight to Griselda for dinner, Dame Kitty Kipling gathers a rescue party, her hapless son Greg makes everything considerably harder, and the Gingerbread House oven turns out to be where things really hot up.
There's a town centenary with a towering pyramid of profiteroles, more crazy cakes and barmy biscuits than Bake Off, and a scene that sends Dame Kipling and Greg out into the audience. The Customer can be played by one performer or three, so the script flexes to whatever company you have.
This panto script is a sweet treat!
Cast Size: 8 Principal Characters, plus 4 Supporting Roles and Ensemble
Approximate Running Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes plus Interval
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Hansel and Gretel Pantomime Script Excerpt
The ENSEMBLE gather around GREG as he addresses the AUDIENCE.
GREG: To celebrate the town’s centenary year we’re having a great big feast. We’ve got a smorgasbord of delicious deserts of all shapes and sizes and more crazy cakes and barmy biscuits than the Great British Bake Off! Look here, Mr Wollyhood has made an apple crumble in the shape of a chocolate cake.
MR WOLLYHOOD displays his chocolate cake to the AUDIENCE. Everyone “Oohs” and there is a polite round of applause.
MR WOLLYHOOD: I made it using fruit grown in my garden.
GREG: Mrs Peith has made a baklava that looks like a baguette.
MRS PEITH shows off her baguette to the AUDIENCE. Everyone “Oohs” and gives a polite round of applause.
GREG: And Miss Merry has made an Eton mess that looks just like a lovely large, delicious sponge.
MISS MERRY displays a yellow cleaning sponge to the AUDIENCE. Again everyone “Oohs” and applauds.
GREG: There is such a talent here, we’re baking mad you see. We’re just waiting for one more person to arrive, my mum, Dame Kipling.
ENSEMBLE 1: I hope she gets here soon. She always makes the best biscuits.
ENSEMBLE 2: I wonder what she’s bringing, I love her coffee flavoured tea cakes!
GREG: Last year she made a biscuit model of our town square complete with the market place. She made the market stalls out of sponge fingers, jelly and custard. It looked lovely, but it was a trifle bazaar!
ENSEMBLE 3: Dame Kipling makes exceeding tasty cakes.
ENSEMBLE 1: No, Dame Kipling makes exceedingly delicious cakes.
ENSEMBLE 2: Personally I think Dame Kipling makes exceedingly marvellous cakes.
GREG: They’ve been trying to come up with a marketing slogan for my mum’s baking for years, but they’ve never quite got it right!
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Hansel and Gretel Characters
Principal Characters
Hansel: Titular character and Gretel’s brother
Gretel: Titular character and Hansel’s sister
Dame Kitty Kipling: Baker, cake maker and biscuit connoisseur
Greg Kipling: An enthusiastic but hapless baker
Ernest: Hansel and Gretel’s father
Edna: Hansel and Gretel’s stepmother
Griselda: Wicked Witch and occupant of the Gingerbread house
Stinkworth: Griselda’s horrible sidekick
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Mr Wollyhood, Mrs Peith and Miss Merry: Local cake-bakers
Customer: A recurring customer at Dame Kipling’s Bakery
Ensemble: Townsfolk, Bakers, Skeletons and Ghosts etc
List of Scenes
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Scene One: The Town Square
Scene Two: The Edge of the Forest
Scene Three: The Town Square
Scene Four: The Forest
Scene Five: Dame Kipling’s Bakery
Scene Six: The Forest
Scene Seven: Dame Kipling’s Bakery
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Scene Eight: Deep in the Forest
Scene Nine: Deeper in the Forest
Scene Ten: The Gingerbread House
Scene Eleven: Even Deeper in the Forest
Scene Twelve: The Gingerbread House
Scene Thirteen: Song Sheet
Scene Fourteen: Finale/Bows
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