This new dramatic version of the Little Red Riding Hood story is a gentle reconceiving of the tale, a questioning of its assumptions, in particular about the role of the mother in such a tale which is limited, in the versions received by us, to essentially sending her child off onto a path through the woods. In this version the mother is "restored" to a much more central role, but this is not done arbitrarily, but rather in a spirit of great fun, and with attention to the detail and logic underlying this tale. The roles of the Wolf, the Grandmother, and Little Red Riding Hood herself are also questioned and revitalized, so that this tale now not only speaks to very young children, but speaks out to adults and children of all ages.
This reading will be held at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dreyfuss Theatre, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ. Click here for directions. Click here for a printable map of the campus (the Dreyfuss Theatre is located in Building 9).
All tickets are general admission. There will be a talk-back following the reading.
Russell Davis' plays have been produced at various theatres, including People's Light & Theatre, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory, Long Wharf and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey. He was resident playwright at People's Light for the Theatre Residency Program of the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group. He was a recipient of a 2008-10 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and has received playwright fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, McKnight Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is also a juggler.
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Appropriate for the entire family.
Directed by John Pietrowski
Cast:
Jennifer - Jenelle Sosa*
Mother/Hunter - Karen Vicks*
Malarkey - Michael Pollard*
Grandmother - Bonnie Black*
Stage Directions - John Pietrowski*
* Members of Actors' Equity Association
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