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Full-Length Play, Pantomime / 4w, 2m, 10 any gender (adult)
Norman Robbins
The White Cat by Norman Robbins
Norman Robbins' fun-packed pantomimes tell the traditional stories in a clear fast-moving style and can be staged simply or elaborately, as …
Based on the nineteenth century story by the French Countess d'Aulnois the story concerns the heirless King Pat-a-Cake of Euphoria who has three adopted sons. Seeking a successor he sets them atask, offering the throne to the winner. Dim-witted Princes Fyne and Dandi squabble over he quest whilst Prince Peerless encounters a beautiful girl on his travels. She is, in fact, Princess Rosamund, hidden twenty years ago by her distraught parents who believed she would be forced to marry Prince Ghastly by his mother Queen Venoma, who is still searching for her, using her magic powers. Mother Goose keeps a fairy-watch over the story and is instrumental in hiding Rosamund at the court of the White Cat, Queen of Mysteria.
This new version of the famous Victorian pantomime has all the essential ingredients of modern pantomime from ghost sequences to the Dame and the children's sing-a-long, with the Internet, and e-mail thrown in for good measure!
First productions in 2002
As of 2016 over 50 productions nationally
MOTHER GOOSE (F)
GHISELLE, her pet goose (M or F)
AMBROSE (M)
KING (M)
VENOMA (F)
DAME (M or F)
PRINCESS (F)
PETER (M or F)
FYNE (M or F)
DANDI (M or F)
PEERLESS (F or M)
BLUEMALKIN (M or F)
ESMERALDA (F)
PEGLEGASUS, a horse, (M or F) x2
TIGGER-TOES (dancer) (M or F)
Dame preferably played by a man - but not a female impersonator
Peerless preferably played by a woman (principal boy character)
Chorus of citizens, courtiers, servants, cats can be any in number, age or gender
Multiple settings as simple or extravagant as finances allow
Norman Robbins, one of Amateur Theatre's most popular authors, wrote his first stage show almost 60 years ago whilst working for the Yorkshire Evening Post. An avid theatregoer from the age of three (his grandparents ran the pub near the local theatre so free tickets were al ...