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

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

The man with the wrought-iron heart – now an old man – relates his story. He reminisces about his childhood, and thinks about the first time he played the piano – a moment which coincided with the death of his younger brother. It is now him who plays the piano for a child.