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Treasure Island: The Panto
Written by Adam G Smith
[Updated in 2025] Get ready to sail for fun and adventure with young Jim in this swashbuckling Pantomime version of Treasure Island. This pantomime script is loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel and brings you all the traditional elements of our annual panto that everybody loves.
Swashes will be buckled! Timbers will be shivered! It’s sure to be a plank walking, parrot-squawking triumph!
Running Time - 2 Hours
Cast Size 12 - 14 (Roles can be doubled up)
Cast
Jim A young man yearning for adventure.
Mrs Booty Barnacles Hard hitting dame that runs the Admiral Scuttle Inn & is the adopted mother to both Jim & Dippy Deano.
Dippy Deano – Comical and dim-witted boy who works at the Admiral Scuttle Inn.
Long John Silver – Main Villain, Pirate with one eye who wants to seek pirate treasure that was lost many years ago.
Squire Trelawney – A bumbling rich landowner of the local town.
Polly Trelawney – Young daughter of the Squire who also yearns for her own adventure in a mans world.
Sea Legs Sam – Dim-witted pirate who you feel just fell in with the wrong crowd.
Captain Flounder – Experienced captain in the Royal Navy, well spoken, courageous and proud.
Ben Pistol – An eccentric marooned sailor on the island with his imaginary friend 'Winston'.
Peckly the Parrot – Long Johns Silver's feathery sidekick with a big attitude.
Black Dog – A ruthless pirate who loves plundering, torturing and looting.
Nine Lives Nancy – A glamorous female pirate and part of Long John's crew.
Billy Bones – A washed up and paranoid former first mate of the notorious Captain Flint.
Pierre Le Pew Pew – A French visually impaired pirate who comes to deliver the Black Spot.
Script Sample
Captain: Ah Mrs Booty Barnacles, you must be ship’s cook?
Jim: Erm, there’s just one tiny little problem.
Squire: What’s that Jim?
Deano: She can’t cook!
Mrs Booty B: Oh, I still want to come. So, what shall I be?
Deano: In the blooming way I should think.
Jim: But Mrs B are you sure you want to come? You used to tell us how you used to get seasick in the paddling pool when you were younger.
Mrs Booty B: Oh, I’ll have grown out of that now, won’t I Deano?
Deano: Oh yes, you’ll never fit in that paddling pool now.
Mrs Booty B: Cheeky boy!
Captain: Then that’s settled.
Squire: Hmm, then we’ll still need a cook and the rest of a crew. You can’t expect men to sail without a good meal inside them.
Long John moves forward towards the group.
Long John: Did I be hearing you say you was looking for a cook?
Captain: That’s right.
Long John: Then you need look no further sir. A fine cook I be.
Peckly: Aye, so he be. So he be.
Long John: Long John Silver at your service. And this here be Peckly, my parrot.
Peckly: Pieces of nine. Pieces of nine. Aark!
Squire: Doesn’t he mean, “pieces of eight”?
Long John: Aaar, that were before Trumps tariffs! I’m between jobs right now and would be grateful for a chance to sail with ye.
Captain: Oh! What’s your speciality?
Long John: Well, I makes a fine pie.
Mrs Booty B: Ooh, I love a good pie. A nice meaty one I hope.
Long John: It’s shepherd’s pie for me. I used to make it all the time.
Jim: Why did you stop?
Peckly: He ran out of shepherds.
Long John: Oh ignore my feathery friend, he doesn’t know when to ..Shut up!
Squire: It looks as though you have your cook captain.
Captain: Hmm, are you sure? I think you could be pirates.
Long John and Peckly: Oh no we’re not! [ audience business]
Long John: [towards audience] Shut yer ugly traps or ye’ll be walking the plank before this day is out.
Captain: I’m not sure about you two.
Jim: Billy Bones told me to look out for a one-eyed man. He seemed very afraid of him.
Mrs Booty B: Are you sure it wasn’t the one-eyed monster Jim? That what my mum used to warn me about.
Long John: Why, how could anyone be afraid of little old me?
Peckly: I am! [Long John hits him - Peckly Sqwalk]
Squire: Well, he seems alright to me Captain and we do need a cook.
Captain: Okay then, we’ll take the chance. I’ll be watching you like a hawk though Mr Silver.
Squire: Are you sure you can get a crew at such late notice?
Long John: Aye they’re ‘dead certain’ to make the voyage ha-ha.
Deano: Well, that was suspiciously sinister.
Squire: Well, that’s that settled then. We sail within the hour, have the men here ready for then Mr Silver!
Long John: Aye Mr Squire sir, I won’t let ye down.