Colleen and I are going to try to co-write a pantomime.

Because the last one just had no plot.

It was all bad jokes.

This one'll (hopefully) be chock full of bad jokes, but ones that propell the story forwards.

Cast of characters (some named, some unnamed):

The King

The King's son, Prince Who

The Prince's side-kick, Harold the Herald

The Nanny (Dame)

A young blind girl (ward/daughter of the Nanny)

The evil Advisor (yet unnamed)

His two stupid henchmen, Hugh and Mee

The Sea Captain

The Sea Captain's Daughter

A rhyming French swordsman

And the chorus, a collection of sailors and peasants.

I was thinking of this little section today at work:

(The Prince has gone off to defeat an evil bird and obtain it's golden wishing egg, all, of course, an evil scheme of the Advisor, but in the process manages to get him and Harold the Herald turned to stone. The King is sitting in his throne room bewailing his fate.)

King: Alas, alack, woe be my poor son's fate...(etc)...

(Sounds of someone approaching stage left)

King: Who's there? Is that you, Who?

(Enter Hugh and Mee)

Hugh: No, sire, it's just Hugh and Mee.

King (indicating Mee): Yes, and him.

Hugh: That's right, and Mee.

Mee (nodding): And Hugh.

King: And me.

Hugh and Mee: That's right.

(Collective sad sigh)

Etc.

~

I haven't thought beyond that.

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Rosie

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