Cinderella: A Traditional Pantomime Script

by John Garforth

An original script for the traditional pantomime, Cinderella. This was written for the Tamworth Pantomime Company and performed in Tamworth over the 2009/10 Christmas period.

There is no per performance charge for performing this pantomime, although we reserve the right to change this with fair notice in the future. All we ask is that each major cast member buys a copy of the script, the author be credited, and we'd appreciate any constructive feedback.

112 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 4, 2014

About the author

I spent thirty years as a local government officer – in libraries and the arts, beginning in London and ending up in Blackburn as a Principal Officer. Simultaneously earning more money from a career as a hack novelist and journalist to support a wife and three children.

I took early retirement in the 1980s and ran the Theatre of the Unemployed at Tamworth Arts Centre for the next seven years. This ended when my leading professional actor died (see the Sam Whitbread thread of my Ankerside novel).

It is a convention that local government officers cannot be active in local politics. My political activities of the 50s and 60s (CND, Committee of 100) had ceased, especially as I climbed the career ladder. But in the 1990s I resumed local politics, becoming first a borough councillor and then a county councillor. What might be called a gamekeeper turned poacher.

I wrote 16 hack novels – television spin-offs, ghosting and the like. I wrote 17 plays over the years but most of them for specific occasions or specific casts or to meet specific regional arts association criteria.