Hansel and Gretel
Pantomime Script
12 Characters • 8 Principals, 4 Supporting plus Ensemble • Running time ~1h 50m
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Dame Kitty Kipling's obsession with baking sets the tone for Hansel and Gretel before Griselda the witch even appears. Eight principals cover a full-scale rescue mission through the forest to find the Gingerbread House. There’s plenty for your Chorus too with more cakes and biscuits than Bake Off!
Hansel and Gretel Pantomime Script Synopsis
Everyone in town is celebrating with an enormous feast of cakes and biscuits, and Dame Kitty Kipling is marking the occasion with a towering pyramid of profiteroles. But from there, everything starts to go horribly wrong.
Stinkworth, the Wicked Witch's scheming sidekick, kidnaps Hansel and Gretel and delivers them straight to her for dinner. Determined to save them, Dame Kipling gathers a rescue party and ventures deep into the forest, in search of the Gingerbread House.
Will anyone make it back in time for the show-stopping celebration cake?
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Hansel and Gretel Characters and Scenes
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 evil sidekick
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Mr Wollyhood, Mrs Peith and Miss Merry: Local cake-bakers
Customer: A recurring customer at Dame Kipling’s Bakery
Townsfolk, Bakers, Skeletons and Ghosts etc
Scaleable to suit your company size
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Act One
1) The Town Square
2) The Edge of the Forest
3) The Town Square
4) The Forest
5) Dame Kipling’s Bakery
6) The Forest
7) Dame Kipling’s BakeryAct Two
8) Deep in the Forest
9) Deeper in the Forest
10) The Gingerbread House
11) Even Deeper in the Forest
12) The Gingerbread House
13) Songsheet
14) Finale/Bows
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!