Workshop Ideas

Most of the ideas here can be played with either before the performance or after. Because the intention of the performance is to enrich and deepen our experience of the fairy tale, it might be interesting to do some of the things before and after to see the changes.

Things To Do

Read story aloud so that everyone remembers the details of the story. Divide into groups of 6 and have each person choose the role they would like : Narrator, Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf, the mother, the grandmother, the hunter/woodcutter (depending on version of story). Let them make up their own lines and have the groups perform their interpretation. Do not encourage kids to stick to the original story. If they are inventing.... go for it!

Discuss why they liked or didn't like the roles that they were playing?

We have provided a little history of the story that you might talk about with your children. How is this very old story still relevant today?

Questions to ask your students

1. Why do you think that LRRH listened to the wolf instead of her mother?
2. What would you have done if you had been Little Red Riding Hood?
3. What kinds of things could the wolf have tempted you with?

Have groups go back and rework their performance substituting flowers for something that the wolf could have tempted them with. Perhaps try substituting the wolf for another animal that a child might want to be (or find frightening).

Questions to ask your students

1. Why do you like or dislike this story?
2. What do you think is the message in the story?
3. What other fairy tales can you think of that have messages in them?
4. What are the messages?

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