PETER BOND
FAMILY-FRIENDLY PANTOMIMES - AND ALL FEES PAID TO CHARITY!
Televised by Channel 4! Shine TV used Peter Bond’s A Budget Cinderella for The Write-Offs (29 September 2020), a programme about adult literacy. The participants presented A Budget Cinderella in front of an audience at the Globe Theatre in London.
Which Prince uses Tinder to choose his Princess? Which Prince rules his life according to his fitbit? And which wicked Queen uses an App - but needs her resident geniuses to show her how to make it work?
“I kept laughing out loud while I was reading it. My husband wondered what was going on.” (St. Andrew’s Players, Bristol)
SEE THE LIST BELOW: full-length pantomimes, one-act pantomimes, pantomimes for small casts, and fifteen-minute rhyming pantomimes.
Click on any title to read an extract from the script or for further details.
Full-length Pantomimes (with Full Casts)
New for 2023: The Ugly Duckling - now published by Lazy Bees!
* Cinderella (Version 1) *Rumpelstiltskin
* Cinderella (Version 2) *The Princess and the Pea
*The King’s New Clothes (co-written with Bob Heather) *The Magic Tinderbox
Goldilocks and the Three Bears *The Ugly Duckling
Scripts marked with an asterisk are handled by Lazy Bees. Please follow the Link on the page for that script.
One-Act Pantomimes
*A Budget Cinderella *Jack and the Beantin
Scripts marked with an asterisk are handled by Lazy Bees Scripts. Please follow the Link on the page for that script.
Pantomimes for Small Casts
Some of the Full-Length Pantomimes are also available in a slightly reduced form (75-90 minutes), designed to be performed by a small number of actors (6 - 8), with some doubling of parts. These are:
Aladdin
Dick Whittington
Rumpelstiltskin
Snow White
Very short (15 minutes) Rhyming Pantomimes
*Goldilocks *The Dancing Princesses
*Hansel and Gretel *The Elves and the Shoemaker
*Little Red Riding Hood *The Princess and the Frog
*Rapunzel The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Dick Whittington Sleeping Beauty
Other Fifteen-minute Rhyming Scripts
Androcles and the Lion *Baboushka
Scripts marked with an asterisk are handled by Lazy Bees Scripts. Please follow the Link on the page for that script.
The Scripts: If you wish to perform one of these scripts, please feel free to make alterations - to include local references, to reduce the length, or to suit the needs of your group.
Songs: All full-length and one-act scripts have song suggestions. Experience indicates that most producers prefer their own choice of songs. Note: It is the producer’s responsibility to check whether any songs to be used are still in copyright and to pay any fees due.
“…presses all the expected panto buttons.” (Southern Daily Echo)
OTHER SCRIPTS
Adaptations of classic tales (full-length):
*The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
The Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde)
Adaptation of classic tale (half-length):
*Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope)
Moments in British History (30-minute comedies):
Scripts marked with an asterisk are handled by Lazy Bees Scripts. Please follow the Link on the page for that script.