Tom Lister

The story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on Broadway.

Anne Harding looks after her small fruit and vegetable farm, her teenage daughter Jamie and her mother Molly, who suffers from arthritis. Then one day John Smith, her Aunt Sally's butler, turns up on her doorstep. The widow wants to lend John to her sister Molly for six weeks. With his discreet manner, John gets to the bottom of the family's little secrets and tries to help them inconspicuously.

A salesman tries to juggle the stress of his job with his increasing alcoholism, while his long hours away from home mean his family life has all but collapsed in the quest for sales.

In a world where fairy tale characters live amongst us like everyday celebrities and pantomimes are their life stories told on stage, their role in this years pantomime have been cancelled. What do they do?