Working in the Following Genre:
Pantomime
Award-winning pantomime writer and performer
Jon Monie has appeared in pantomimes at the Theatre Royal in Bath for over twenty years. Titles he has written for professional productions performed all around the UK include 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', 'Aladdin', 'Peter Pan - The Return of Captain Hook', 'The Little Mermaid', 'Cinderella', 'Jack and the Beanstalk', and 'Beauty and the Beast' (winner of Best Script at the 2019 Great British Pantomime Awards). Children's plays include 'Captain Birdbrain's Birthday', 'Santa's Magical Gift', 'The Dinosaur That Couldn't Roar', and 'The Gingerbread Boy'.
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Reviews for Jon Monie's pantomime scripts
"Monie's script shows what can be achieved with care and imagination in breathing fresh life into these traditional and well-known stories ★★★★★" Pocket Sized Theatre
"Mr Monie has written a script that breathes new life into an old story... and boy does it fizz" Wiltshire Times
"Jon Monie's script manages the rare feat of being genuinely funny, including jokes for all ages with perfect timing. I can't remember ever seeing a funnier panto, nor a warmer, happier feel from an entire audience" The Fine Times Recorder
"In Monie's hands, the jokes are the gifts that keep on giving - genuinely, hilariously, properly funny... Monie's script is bang on the money" The Bath Magazine |
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