Red Riding Hood

Synopsis

Red Riding Hood is a goody good girl who takes food to her sick Granny in the woods - but the wolf sees her going and wants to eat her. Being a theatrical type he avoids the usual 'slash and kill' approach and goes to grannies house where he hides her in a cupboard and climbs into bed in disguise. Red Riding Hood is slow to spot the deception but is fortunately saved by a woodman with an axe!

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 16 December 2010

As usual at this address, the theatre itself, and the audience, is the real star of the pantomime, and nothing is much better than the pre-show warm-up with the Three Little Pigs leading a singalong of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” The foyer is festooned, the bar is heaving, the kids are squealing.

The old story is given a new twist with the threat of lumpy modern architecture along the Woodland Way (as happened in these very parts) but the distant origins of the tale – a little girl was devoured by a pack of wolves in France in the eleventh century – are fully honoured; Michael Bertenshaw’s terrific wolf is even given a Roman name tag, Lupinus.

The show concludes in the belly of the beast where the Ben the Woodman (Marcus Ellard) cuts everyone free after Lupinus has binge-gobbled and is then made to laugh so much that he passes out.

Ben only has a little chopper, but he knows how to use it, and that’s good enough for [Sharona S...

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