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Hansel and Gretel by Sally Gander
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Includes a pantomime dame (usually, but not necessarily played by a man), but doesn't have a formal 'principal boy' role. The chorus includes sniggering goblins and a pantomime owl! |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short British Pantomime, suitable for performance by children or adults. (Technically a two-act play, because there are two acts, but classified as a one-act, because it's not long enough to need an interval!) |
| Synopsis | A few unconventional twists to the Grimm brothers' tale. The witch wants an extention for her cottage. Enter the odd job men, Short and Sweet. (Given that it's a gingerbread cottage, this is a really odd job.) Meanwhile, Hansel and Gretel have got lost in the woods (by following an escaped cake!) and their mother (Dame Betty Knott) is going frantic. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Hansel and Gretel [Short Play] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. This may be an unual cast for Hansel and Gretel. Tthere could well be a huntsman, a professor, a troll and a small police unit in some version, somewhere. And if there wasn't, there is now. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Divided into 13 scenes, but can be played continuously without the need for elaborate stage sets. |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel's widowed and lonely father, a woodcutter, needs a new wife. When his children find him the perfect candidate an early 'happy ever after' resolution appears likely. It can't be that simple, can it? No, it can't. Enter a witch with an evil plan and family life takes a turn for the worse. |
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| Hansel and Gretel [Verse] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. This approaches the border of the British pantomime genre. (Make you own mind up on that point!) |
| Synopsis | A short rhyming play that preserves the villainous role of the father, but takes extreme liberties with other parts of the original tale, casting Hansel and Gretel in a less-than-favourable light. |
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Hansel and Gretel [Version 2] by James O'Sullivan
Winner of Best Junior Play award at Chelford Drama Festival 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Seven major parts and six minor ones, including a wolf and two birds. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act sardonic comedy for a youth theatre company (or could be played by adults to an audience of kids). |
| Synopsis | The parents of Hansel and Gretel are looking to downsize the family, so they relocate their kids to the woods where they run afoul of a wicked witch. |
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| Hansel and Gretel [Version 3] by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Chorus size variable at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 9 songs are included with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length Pantomime, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | A new treatment of this old favourite retains all the usual, and more, panto characters, as Hansel and Gretel are rescued from the evil witch's grasp, and the Prince falls in love and marries Gretel. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Hansel And Gretel [Version 4] by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for fourteen songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A two act pantomime |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel have been sold to Badelia, the wicked witch, who is fattening them up ready to eat. Fortunately Goodelia, the good witch is able to help the various goodies rescue them and rid the world of Badelia’s evil. |
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| Hansel and Gretel...? (A Postmodern Pantomime) [Full-Length] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with assorted characters in the mix. |
| Synopsis | The Director wants this to be a wonderous re-telling of the classic dark fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, but he gets much more than he bargained for. Hansel comes 'from the audience', there is a Dame-for-hire, and Cinderella tries to hijack the whole pantomime halfway through! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Hansom and Petal by Anne Bourke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. Whilst some of the characters are written with a specific gender, this is a pantomime, and it doesn't really matter who plays which. |
| Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 8 songs; the production may use fewer. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script has suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act pantomime aimed at performance by a school class. Minimal sets. (Locations indicated by a sign bearer.) |
| Synopsis | The classic tale of Hansel and Gretel is given a panto spin and a modern sensibility in this script, designed for an Elementary schools production. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Happiest Day of Your Life by Stephen Gillard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters have a playing age of around thirty. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sharply witty one act play. Simple set, divided into two separate areas. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | This is supposed to be the happiest day of bride Laurie's life but her pre-wedding nerves are giving her cold feet and she has to enlist the good sense of her bridesmaid Eliza to crystallise her thoughts about the giant step she is about to take. Little does she know that her groom Issac and his best man Will are also going through exactly the same process. We witness, with a smile on our lips, the agonisings and frustrations of the situation all four of the friends have to deal with. |
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| Happiness by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the on-stage characters, there is an opening voiceover from a priest (which, for casting purposes, is assumed to be arecording.) |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play. Is this a romantic comedy? Probably! It's well-plotted, with serious and comedic moments and plenty of scope for character acting. Single living-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The countdown to Philippa's marriage to Christopher is almost up, but they're just coming back from a funeral. The death of her beloved Aunt Susan is just the first event of many that makes Philippa reconsider her future plans for happiness. |
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