Alison Wonderland - Pantomime Script

Alison Wonderland - a Lidell village pantomime

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Alison Westonland - a Lidell village pantomime

This is a sample of Alice in Wonderland. This was written by Victuallers in the year 2000 and first performed in Weston on Trent in 2001. Pantomime groups interested in purchasing this script should contact Victuallers@pantoscripts.org.uk.

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PLEASE READ STUCK IN THE HOUSE FIRST TO APPRECIATE THE SCRIPT.

This script will be performed in Newark on 27th November 2004.

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Synopsis *

Characters and Characteristics *

Act ONE

1. Photo's of Scene 1 On the Green, beside the pinfold *

2. Photo's of Scene 2 Falling. As she is falling Carroll enters again *

3. Photo's of Scene 3 The Race (the fun run), Pool of Tears, The Doors *

Act Two - Wonderland

4. Stuck in the house (Script SAMPLE)

5. Photo's of Scene 2 The Caterpillar *

6. Photo's of Scene 3 The Duchesses House *

7. Photo's of Scene 4 Tea Party (Raffle)`- The smiling Dinah? *

Act Three

8. Photo's of Scene 1 Croquet - and Seafood *

9. Photo's of Scene 2 The Trial (Royal Court) *

10. Photo's of Scene 3 Back at the Garden (includes finale) *

The Panto's colour is red and the theme is playing cards, being bored in the village and "the fence"

Synopsis

In 1865 Lewis Carroll) told the story of Alice in Wonderland to three of the Lidell sisters.

The Ground farce team arrive this year in Brean to clear up an overgrown garden at the request of the residents committee (its an eyesore) The land belongs to Mr. Dodgson who is a lonely old man (he would say he keeps himself to himself). Alison and her sisters are bored as they sit on the green beside the pinfold. They don't like the people in the village, because they are old and boring.

Alison is distracted and watches the ground farce team discover a secret Victorian garden in the undergrowth. In the garden is a hole near a small stone. A rabbit arrives and goes down the hole and Alison follows.

Alison's mission is to beat the Queen and leave the land (Brean)happy.

After her adventures she returns to realise that the people in the village are very similar to the interesting people in Wonderland - she will now no longer be bored because she has so many interesting people to talk to in the village.

Alison's real name is Alison, however in Wonderland she is always called Alice (as everyone always interrupts her introduction)

Programme could include French, English and German versions of Jabberwocky. The story is based on the version of Alice published as "The Annotated Alice"

Character	Who	On the Green	Falling	The Race	Rabbits House	Caterpillar	Duchess House	Tea Party	Croquet	The Trial	Back at the Garden
ALISON2 (A tall actor)			*	*		*	*	*	*	*
Alison (a medium sized actor)		*	*	*						*	*
Baby Alison (the smallest girl you have.)					*
Lorina/Lorri		*		*						*	*
Edith/Egret		*		*						*	*
Mrs Lidell/Queen ©		*							*	*	*
Charlie/Duchess		*			*	*	*		*	*	*
Alan/Cheshire cat		*					*				*
Tommy/ King ©		*						*		*	*
White Rabbit		*		*	*					*
Lewis Carroll			*				*	*
Milton the Mouse				*						*
Crab				*
Draycott the Duck				*
Dodo				*
Stage manager				*			*
Hutton the rabbit				*
Little Rabbit				*
Bill					*					*
Council for the defence (A © )										*
Everyone											*

Characters and Characteristics

Character	Characteristic
Alice	See below
Alison	Aged ten, The real Alice was "loving as a dog, gentle, courteous, trustful, no sin or sorrow, with youth, audacity, vigour, swift directness of purpose," Full name Alice Pleasance Lidell. Our Alison is clever, but bored with living in a village, not shy, but doesn't appreciate older people, who may be more interesting than she thinks.
Lorina Charlotte	Aged thirteen. Bored with her sisters who are children. Typical big sister
Edith	Aged eight, still young and fascinated by things going on around her
White Rabbit	Would not say boo to a goose,. Lots of children say "Hello Dad - he looks embarrassed. Lewis Carroll descrbes him as "elderly, feeble, nervous, shilly-shallying, bespectacled, with a nosegay" ours isn't! Principal Boy
Mad Hatter	Kings Messenger
March Hare	Kings Messenger
Mr. Dodgson/ Lewis Carroll	Charles Dodgson was aged 30 when he wrote Alice. We have set this when he is old, but Lewis Carrol stays young.
The Queen of Hearts (Q© )	The Baddie.- angry, superior, haughty. According to Lewis Carroll. The red queen was a strict governess. Cold & Severe
The King of Hearts - K© Bamp	Hard done by - hen-pecked - Stoical - The Judge
Knave (Jack) of Hearts J ©	Jack "the lad". Willing to admit to a crime if it's good for the image.
The Duchess	The Dame (Charlie Dimmock). Totally different to the Queen of Hearts, they are rivals at croquet. Calls herself Auntie
Cheshire Cat	Alan Titchmarsh Appears and disappears
Spades	The Gardeners
Diamonds	Courtiers
Hearts ©	Royal children
Clubs	Soldiers
Edith Mead(Cook)	Typical "Mrs Bridges" Cook - we had an italian one
Animals of the jury	Frog,
Rosetti	Dormouse
Pat from Badgworth	Badger
	Hedgehog Little person who can forward roll a lot
Bill	Lizard
Duck	Animal of the caucus race
Mouse	Based on French governess, also in Caucus race Speaks French
Lorri	A type of bird, written for Lorina Alice's elder sister - from Brean Down Tropical Garden?
Egret	A small eagle, Written for Edith Younger sister
Crab	Favourite word specific
Fish footman	Small Walk on part
Frog footman	Small Walk on part
Gryphon	Says dear girl etc
Turtle	As bored with life as the Gryphon but interesting never the less
Hutton Rabbit	And many other assorted baby rabbits

Act Two - Wonderland
Scene 1 Stuck in the house

		The scene is set in a small garden with a small house in the background looking like a cute house in your area perhaps?, there are two workmen out side leaning on their tools. One (Bill) is a lizard, and Pat is a Badger
Bill				How's that Garden of yours coming on then, Pat?
Pat				On not bad, not bad. It's looking like a Titchmarsh at the moment, but it will look good when I put the Dimmocks in.
Bill				Are you having Walshes?
Pat,				No, they grow too big. Is the Allotment O.K.?
Bill				Yeah, but there's no water.
Pat				No water, Why?
Bill				I planted too many leeks
Pat				I've got holes in mine.
Bill				Holes?
Pat,				Yeah, a mole has just moved in.
Bill				Ohh, If it were in my garden I'd bury it alive.
Pat	pause			Funny thing happened just now Bill
Bill				Just now when?
Pat				Just now. Then
Bill				Oh, not just now, now
pat				No, not as recent as that.
bill	Medium pause			What happened then?
Pat				When?
Bill				Just now
Pat				Oh, you know rabbits house?
Bill				which one?
Pat				The white one with the fluffy ears
Bill				No, which house!
Pat	Pointing behind			HIS, not the ones with the wives and children.
Bill				Well
Pat				..., what is it?.....
Bill				It's a deep hole with water in,......
Pat				You could really do with one on the allotment.
bill				No I mean, what happened?
Pat				When ?
Bill				just now.
Pat				just now when?
Bill				Just now, when you said some thing funny happened
Pat,				did I?
bill				You did.
Pat				I can't remember.
Bill				You drink too much
Pat				I drink to forget
Bill				To forget what?
Pat				I don't know, I've forgotten
	Noise from house as of furniture scraping across the floor.
Pat and bill	turn round and look
Pat,			aarrr, I remember now. I just saw this girl run into it
bill,			What, into the well
Pat			No, into Rabbits house
Bill			A girl?,
Pat			Yes, he's got several doors in his house, and this girl ran into one of them.
Bill			Ran into a door, she must have been in Agony
Pat.			Argoni, the small Greek Island, I've been on holiday there, no, she went in through the door.
Bill	Pause, while they work a bit		Oh................................. Don't you think we should warn her
Pat	As he speaks a large arm comes out through the window		No, she wouldn't..................oh no.................
Bill			She has
Pat			Bill, you'd better do something about it
Bill			Me, why me?
Pat,			You know him better than I do, you've got the contract for cleaning the Rabbit's chimney
Bill	Looking at house and seeing several		Which one?
Pat			The one with the fluffy ears
	At this point a leg comes out of the chimney, then goes in again
Bill			No! Which chimney! Oooh I can see now! Look someone's pulling her leg.
Enter Duchess			What's the joke then? Who's pulling whose leg? Come on share it with Auntie.
Pat			There's this girl stuck in Rabbits house, and she's got a big hand..
Duchess	Looks at house Gets Audience to clap		What amazing special effects, lets have some applause!!!! There now I've got a big hand too
Bill	To pat		That's not all she's got that's big.
Duchess	Overhears and pointedly ignores		Hurrumph ...Now, I'm puzzled, how did she get in Rabbit's house?
Rabbit	Rushing in		M'lady, M'lady, I'm sorry I'm late I was early but I thought I'd just have time to visit a wife (or two), But then I sent Marianne, (funny, she said her name was Alice,) to fetch my gloves from my house and I have been waiting for her.
Duchess,			what does she look like?
Rabbit			Well , she's a little girl with a blue dress on
Duchess			There isn't a little girl in your house
Bill			Ohh, yes there is,
Duchess,			oh no there's not..................etc.......
Bill			Yes, there is, she's there, a little girl with a blue dress.
Duchess			Little, Little!, She's fifteen feet tall....Let's look at all the little girls here. Now tell me how many of you are over 12 ft high ? Come on , stand up every girl in the audience. Now let me see, Are you sure you are all standing up? Why, none of you are over five-foot.
Bill			Oh yes they are
Duchess			Oh no they're not
Bill			Oh yes they are
Duchess			Oh no they're not
Bill,			But she acts like a little girl, it's not what people look like that matters, but who they really are!
Duchess			Possibly ....Why don't you go and get a closer look
bill	squeaks		Me?
pat			Yeah, I told you to go in the first place
Duchess			Why?
Pat			Because he's got the contract for cleaning Rabbits chimneys, Isn't that right Rabbit?
Rabbit			Yes, but how can that help?
Pat			He can climb down the chimney
Bill	squeaks		Me? Oh No I've Brean Down one of those before!
Rabbit	Disappears off comes back with two little rabbits looking puzzled		oh, I'll go and get her out. The back door appears to be stuck
Little Rabbits	Whit rabbit is embarrassed		Bye Dad
Duchess			Right. Bill, you must have a good head for heights
Bill	proud		Yes
Duchess			.....And you must be a very competent climber
Bill, ,	proud		Yes
Duchess			.....and you must be a very brave lizard
Bill			I suppose so
duchess			Now get down that chimney and talk to that girl!!! Go on do it for Auntie
Bill	Moves off to climb up the chimney and disappears inside		Everytime Bill gets a bit closer Alice moves. Darkness. Mood music (suspense) and 3 steps forward, two steps back.
Pat			Are you alright?
Bill	Offstage, with echo		Its dark in here
Rabbit			I hope he isn't doing any damage
Duchess			Don't worry I will make good any damage
Rabbit			I suppose that's alright
Bill	Echo as before		Pat, I've found her shoe. At least I know she has a soul
Pat			Make sure, she doesn't kick you.
Bill	echo		Ohhh. The leg is tensing
Rabbit			Oh dear my poor little house she's going to kick the lizard
pat			Oh no she'll damage your house and..........
Rabbit			Look she's broken the chimney with her big foot
Bill	The lizard is thrown out of the chimney, and lands by duchesses side
Pat					............and she's sent you the bill!!!
Duchess					Well I guess I will have to pay it as she's now a girl from a broken home! Look it used to be a Steep Holm and now it's a Flat Holm
Rabbit					I think she has eaten some of my special "eat me" cake.
Duchess					you shouldn't leave that stuff lying around.
Rabbit					We will have to make her smaller
Duchess					have you got any slimfast?
Rabbit					no
Duchess					Isn't that lucky, I've my emergency supply with me.
Duchess	To audience				As you can see it gives you a perfect figure (twirl)
Rabbit	Looks at packet -				it says here. Daily Dose - for a perfect figure - A cup
Duchess					It does say that - But my late husband always used to say. For a perfect figure - D Cup (twirl)
Pat					what does it do then?
Duchess	Show off waist				It makes you smaller
Pat					It's a shrinking stuff then?
duchess					Yes,, you could call it that
Rabbit					Give her that shrinking stuff, quick
Duchess					Bill
Bill	Squeaks Then disappears off stage				Not me again
Duchess					Pat, go and put this in her hand and tell her to drink it.
	Pat goes offstage and bottle appears in large hand
Rabbit					Alice, Alice quickly drink This is the stuff to make you shrink
Duchess					She can't hear you. Come on everybody, all at once
Rabbit					Alice, Alice quickly drink This is the stuff to make you shrink
Pat					Its not working
Duchess					Well, we'll have to get these people to help. Come on 1,2,3, Alice, Alice quickly drink This is the stuff to make you shrink
Rabbit					Well I saw their lips move, do it again. Come on you need to really yell it out.
All and Audience					Alice, Alice quickly drink this is the stuff to make you shrink
Duchess	Takes the slimfast box				Give it to her! Alice tear the box
Alice					I can hear you now
little alice	Special effects, and a tiny Alice appears
Duchess	Cast lead Audience in applause				I bet you thought slimfast wouldn't work
pat	Chase after Alice, who hides behind Duchess Then pause as leaving				You hurt my friend, you damaged the rabbit's house, etc
Duchess					Which one?
Pat	Leave with the rabbit				The one with the fluffy ears. How come you finally heard us?
Little alice	Looks scared, duchess grabs and hugs her, pat and rabbit go off				Looking at box its says here "Tear to here!"
Duchess					Come on my dear eat this, it will make you a bit bigger - then come with Auntie. I'll take you to see a friend of mine who can help.
SCENE CHANGE					LEWIS CARROLL APPEARS DURING THE SCENE CHANGES (AS PART OF A SUB PLOT). AT THE END HIS TRUE IDENTITY IS REVEALED.
Lewis Carroll					Education, Education, Education. If they could really improve our education system then they wouldn't need to repeat things three times! Of course you now have education at your finger tips - it gives you the ability to express yourselves. Everyone needs to make a mark (however small) on this world to show you were here. My way was to write stories and make my garden the way I wanted it. Its not what you look like, but who you are!

This is a sample scene from a script that has been adapted for a pantomime near Burnham on Sea

A version for your Panto group can be obtained from Victuallers@pantoscripts.org.uk