Little Match Girl

This is a new, family friendly panto and the story takes place in Victorian England. The story, in no way resembles ‘The Little match Girl’ by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Match girl is a teenager, doesn’t die, the panto is funny and with a happy ending.

Oh yes It is!

The Dame - Pattie Cake, Clara her daughter and Kitty the granddaughter, all live in the same house with Clara’s new husband, nasty Billy Badass. Billy is a bully, doesn’t work at all and is very cruel to his family. Consequently, they are all very poor.

Kitty, is actually a teenager and Billy, her nasty step father, sends her off each morning to sell matches so that he can spend the money on drinking and gambling at the local Inn every night.

Pattie is so distressed by the fact that Billy, her son- in-law, is mean and lazy that she tells him what she thinks and he throws her out of the house. She is helped and guided by her Fairy Godmother, Fairy Cake, who finds her a place to live in the forest in a wood cutter’s cottage.

Meanwhile, the family’s Landlord, Baron Robin Banks and his son Sandy (who is in love with Kitty) arrive at Clara’s and Billy’s house to ask for the rent money. Of course Billy Badass says he doesn’t have it. They give him three days to find the money but Kitty and Clara are sure that he won’t go to work to earn any and they too will be thrown out of the house.

Fairy cake and her helpers come to the rescue! They create a spell and a magic potion (with the help of the audience). Sleazy and Dross find a way to make Billy take the potion.

Does the potion work?

Does Billy Badass relent?

Does Pattie Cake return to the house?

Can Kitty marry Sandy?