A little girl called “Little Red Riding Hood” is playing with her friends. Tired, she falls asleep and dreams of a little fish who is very sick because of sea pollution. Little Red Riding Hood wakes up crying. In order to comfort her, her mother gives her some ciambelle (ring-shaped pastries) and asks her to bring a tart to her grandmother, but without passing through the woods. On the way, Little Red Riding Hood meets a frog first (who coughs and has had to leave the polluted pond), then birds who were forced to migrate because the trees are burning and finally the wolf who shows her the longest route to her grandmother’s house. The wolf outdistances Little Red Riding Hood eats the grandmother and then the little girl. A hunter who has decided he would not hunt animals anymore discovers the wolf sleeping with a full stomach. The hunter extracts the grandmother and the little girl from the wolf’s stomach. Then he asks the audience whether he should save the beast or kill it. In the end, the hunter sentences the wolf to howl during each full moon and to no longer cause harm, and he asks the children to respect nature because one day they might need it.

Glove-puppet

Actor and puppet

Young audiences

Italy

Palermo

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Tale

Ecology

Animal

Pollution

Didactic

Fantasy

Comical

Hand-puppet booth made by Pina Patti Cuticchio, for the play Cappuccetto Rosso by Anna Cuticchio

Italian

Child

Little Red Riding Hood

Mother

Fish

Frog

Wolf

Grandmother

Hunter

Nursery rhyme

Talking animal

Dreamt scene

Address to the public

Disguised character (false identity)

Character hidden inside another

Cappuccetto Rosso

Litte Red Riding Hood

Whilst she is walking on a beach, Caroline, a puppeteer, tells Filip the story of how they met twenty years ago. The action of the play goes back to that time, when she was a student and was attending her last drawing class. The teacher gives them a horse as part of a teaching experiment. The horse suddenly bursts in the classroom. Sacha is then informed that her father, who lives in another country thousands of miles away, is dying. Caroline offers to go with her and so she can say her last goodbye. They drive there with Raphaël, whose girlfriend Marie lives close to their final destination. When they arrive at Marie’s house, Raphaël learns that Marie has been cheating on him with his brother. He still decides to stay with her. Caroline and Sasha leave and arrive in the holiday cottage of one of their classmates. There, Caroline meets Filip. They share a night of love, but at dawn, he is gone. Caroline and Sasha continue their journey where they witness an accident, and they arrive in the village where Sasha’s father lives. Sasha goes to join him whilst Caroline walks along the little streets and meets the villagers. Sasha comes back and announces that her father died. She’s holding a picture of herself when she was a child, and starts talking to the picture and telling it about her passion for puppets. The next day, Sasha and Caroline attend the funeral, and then take a plane to go back to France.

Shadow theatre

Direct Manipulation Bunraku-type Puppetry

Human sized puppet

Not specified

France

Charleville-Mézières

Electronic text

Remembrance

Journey

Death

Passion

Future

Unfaithfulness

Love

Grief

Road-movie

Realist

Dramatic

Fantastic

François Cervantès, Attends-moi, Charleville-Mézières, 2010.