Monday, September 29, 2025

The Princess and the Toad: Four original one-act pantomimes

Price range: £10.99 through £88.00

These four hour-long short plays, with songs, are set around the court of the amiable muffin-loving King Horace, his twin brother Tiresias who is the Royal Soothsayer, Horace’s formidable second wife Queen Beatrice, and the Queen’s sister, the even more formidable Bertha, who is a witch.

In each play, traditional fairy tales receive an unexpected and amusing re-working.

 

The plays are:

The Princess and the Toad

Beast

Rumpelstiltskin and the Sleeping Beauty

Snow white & the Big Bad Wolf

Available for performance from July 2025

Licence code: C
Availability:    Available

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View some sample pages here

SKU: 978-1-7393020-8-5 Categories: , Tags: , , ,

Additional information

Weight .334 kg
Dimensions 21.6 × 14 × .15 cm
Format

Paperback

Author

Gordon House

Licence group

C

Availability

Available

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Request a licence quote License code: C (see price table) Cast: 5 plus chorus (adaptable) Availability: Available Scenes: various locations. Running time: ~ 1 hour each

About the Author

Gordon House joined the BBC as a Studio Manager in 1972, and worked in Children’s Television and Radio Sport, before becoming a Radio drama director. He headed the small BBC World Service Drama team for fourteen years, during which time the Unit won over thirty national and international awards - many of them plays directed by Gordon himself. He initiated the World International Playwriting Competition for radio dramatists, run in conjunction with the British Council, and also wrote a monthly humorous column for the World Service magazine “BBC On Air” under the pseudonym “Nelson Mature”.

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