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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!

Aladdin  *Old King Cole

* Cinderella (Version 1)  *Rumpelstiltskin

* Cinderella (Version 2) *The Princess and the Pea

Dick Whittington  *Snow White

*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

*Mr Scrooge

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

Cinderella *Rumpelstiltskin

Dick Whittington  Sleeping Beauty

Aladdin  *Beast and Beauty

*Babes in the Wood Snow White

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 Frogs (Aristophanes)

*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):

Stonehenge

Hadrian’s Wall

Scripts marked with an asterisk are handled by Lazy Bees Scripts. Please follow the Link on the page for that script.