Hansel and Gretel (Nicol)
Ron Nicol
Genre: Pantomime
Cast size: 17 +Chorus
Duration: Two Act
Ron Nicol | Pantomime | Full-length | 2m, 6f, 9m/f +Chorus
Short synopsis
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Fairies Twigg, Sparkle and Twinkle introduce the story, and appear with with updates at intervals. Hansel and Gretel live in the forest with their father Hans and step-mother Malena. Because of their poverty, Malena intends to take the children into the woods and leave them there. Hans disagrees, but is forced to go along with Malena’s plan. Hansel and Gretel discover this and make plans of their own. Meanwhile, ancient witch Grizella, who lives in the forest with her pet magpie Maggie, also has plans – to take the children and eat them. She and Malena meet and discover that both can gain what they want.
Malena abandons Hansel and Gretel in the forest, despite the protests of their father Hans, but Hansel has left a trail of pebbles and the children find their way home. Malena engages incompetent duo Whibley and Wobbley to help dispose of the children. Hansel and Gretel are again abandoned in the forest, but this time Grizella captures them and puts Hansel in a cage.
Unable to leave a trail of pebbles, Hansel had made do with using crumbs instead, which forest birds Sparra, Burdie and Corbie find. Meanwhile Whibley and Wobbley have become lost in the woods, and unable to find the children, have abandoned their task. Gretel manages to trick Grizella, she and Hans escape, and with the help of the friendly forest birds the children eventually return home.
Eventually it’s revealed that in the past Grizella had cast a spell on Malena making her dislike her family, but this spell is finally broken by the intervention of Twigg, Sparkle and Twinkle.
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