Rumpelstiltskin - Pantomime Script (2024 reissue)

This pantomime has been designed for 10 speaking parts with ensemble parts for dancers. It has also been designed for 2 acts of roughly 35 minutes each, however it could be performed in just above an hour without an interval.
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SAMPLE SCENE

WITCHFINDER
Don’t lie to us, peasant! We have heard stories that you are an all powerful sorceress who can spin straw into gold!

JEN
What idiot told you that?

WIDOW TWANKEY (clearing throat, coughing)
Look, I might have told one or two fibs about you to this guy I met…?

JEN
What fibs? What guy?

WIDOW TWANKEY
Let me tell you a tale… I remember it like it was yesterday… because it was yesterday…

Romantic tango music. GAVIN THE SOLIDER sits down at a table with a candle and wine bottles. Everyone else in the Queens court stays in freezeframe. GAVIN is really PRINCE CHARMING in disguise, with a bad moustache.

WIDOW TWANKEY
I met this guy on tinder… I’m not normally one for computer dating, last time I tried it I caught a virus! But then I swiped right on Gavin… Oh dreamy, Gavin. Big strong, musclebound Gavin, a soldier in the queens army. How could I resist? He swept me off my feet… which was hard because I’m a size 23. He wined and dined me, but then he started asking all kinds of questions, and I don’t know why, but I just kept on lying and lying to impress him!

WIDOW TWANKEY sits down at the table as we go into a flashback.

GAV
You are so beautiful, my love…

WIDOW TWANKEY
I bet you say that to all of the girls!

GAV
Well it’s no good me saying it to all of the boys! So tell me, my love, what do you do for a living?

WIDOW TWANKEY
I’m a… best selling author… super rich! Rolling in cash!

GAV
Oh really? What books have you written?

WIDOW TWANKEY
Er… lots… I’ve written… Macbeth… Oliver Twist… Harry Potter…

GAV
What about J.K Rowling?

WIDOW TWANKEY
Yes I wrote that one too! I really am fabulously rich and famous, and my daughter is super intelligent too. And talented! So talented! She can hold her breath for 3 days! She goes scuba diving in volcanoes. And she can spin straw into gold…

JEN
MUM! Why did you tell him that?

WIDOW TWANKEY
What was I supposed to tell him? You failed all your GCSEs, you can’t spell cat and we’re so poor when we go to KFC we lick other peoples fingers? I was trying to bag me a good husband!

WITCHFINDER
May I suggest trial by ordeal, your majesty? We must conduct a witch test to discover the truth.
The accused should be taken to a prison cell, and made to spin straw into gold! If she does this, then she is a witch! And she shall be burned at the stake!

JEN
No! You can’t burn me at the steak… I’m a vegan!