Play Script of ”Little Red Riding Hood”
1. CHARACTERS, in order of appearance:
· Narrator
· Little girl (Riding Hood)
· Wood-cutters
· Wolf
· Grandmother
2. Costumes and props:
Riding Hood:
· Red cloak or red dress
· Big red hood
· A basket with things and flowers for grandmother
· Make-up (red cheeks, small red mouth, freckles, big eyelashes)
Three or four woodcutters:
· Chequered shirts and working pants
· Caps
· Tools: saw, axe and ropes
· Make-up (moustache, big eyebrows)
Wolf:
· ‘Fur’ (a big brown furry overcoat)
· Clothes – perhaps (A blue overall or a big cloak)
· Long brown tail, brown ears
· Paws with claws (made of old brown gloves or mittens)
· Mask – painted with make-up or made of cardboard (remember the big mouth and the big ears)
· Big teeth – made of plastic, cardboard or painted (or?)
· A big belly for when he has swallowed the grandmother. He also takes on the grandmother’s nightcap and dress.
Grandmother:
· White nightdress
· Nightcap
· Make-up (make her look old)
· Perhaps a wig
· She may be reading or knitting
3. Settings
Everything is in the forest, except for the grandmother’s house. If there is no small wooden shack you can use as the house, you can make the grandmother lie on a deck chair or sit in an ordinary chair under a tree.
4. Acts / Scenes
· Little Red Riding Hood on her way in the forest, singing, plucking flowers. Woodcutters work in the background.
· Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf. They talk. Afterwards the wolf sneaks off to the grandmother’s house.
· The wolf fools the grandmother, enters the hut and eats her. Then the Wolf dresses himself in the grandmother’s clothes and rolls up in her bed.
· Back to Little Red Riding Hood on her way to the hut. She arrives at the hut and knocks at the door.
· The Wolf fools Little Red Riding Hood and eats her.
5. Manuscript:
Scene One:
[Little Red Riding Hood on her way in the forest, singing, plucking flowers and running after butterflies. Woodcutters work in the background].
Narrator: Once upon a time there was a little girl who was called little Red Riding Hood, because she was quite small and because she always wore a red cloak with a big red hood, which her grandmother had made for her. One day her mother, who had been baking cakes, asked her to take a cake and a pot of butter to her Granny who was ill.
Now little Red Riding-Hood was very fond of her grandmother, who made her so many nice things. Her grandmother lived some way off, and to reach the cottage little Red Riding-Hood had to pass through a big lonely forest. However, some wood-cutters were at work in it, so little Red Riding-Hood was not very frightened when she saw a great big wolf coming towards her, because she knew that wolves were not very brave.
[The Wolf comes towards Little Red Riding Hood]
Scene Two:
[The Wolf stops Little Red Riding Hood and they talk]
Wolf [with a deep voice]: Hello little girl. What’s your name?
Riding Hood [with a tiny voice]: I’m Little Red Riding Hood.
Wolf: Aha. I see. So where are you going, Little Red Riding Hood?
Riding Hood: I am going to see Granny, take her this cake and this pot of butter, and ask how she is.
Wolf: Does she live far away?
Riding Hood: Not so very far if you go by the straight road [she points in one direction]. You only have to pass the mill and the first cottage on the right is Granny’s; but I am going by the wood path because there are nuts and flowers and butterflies.
Wolf: I wish you good luck. Say hello to your grandmother and tell her I hope she’ll get better soon.
Narrator: And with that the Wolf walked away. But instead of going his own way he turned back, took the straight road to the old lady’s cottage.
[The Wolf walks away and Little Red Riding Hood starts singing again and plucking flowers. You see the Wolf taking a turn behind Riding Hood’s back and walk in the direction she has pointed out]
Scene Three:
[The Wolf comes to the hut. He knocks at the door]
Granny [from inside]: Who’s there?
Wolf [changing his voice]: Little Red Riding Hood. I have come to bring dear Granny a pot of butter and a cake from mother, and to ask how you are.
Granny: Mmmnn. Pull the door open then.
[The Wolf pulls the door open. The grandmother screams. The Wolf growls and eats her. Then he shuts the door, puts on Granny’s night-cap, and, getting into bed, rolls himself well up in the blankets].
Scene Four:
[Little Red Riding Hood walks along the path, singing. She arrives at the hut and knocks at the door].
Wolf [from inside in a soft voice]: Who’s there?
Riding Hood [whispers to herself]: What a gruff voice Granny has. Ah, maybe it’s just because she’s sick. [Then she answers the Wolf]: It’s Little Red Riding-Hood, with a pot of butter and a cake from mother, to ask how you are.
Wolf: Pull the door open then.
[Little Red Riding Hood pulls the door open, she sees the Wolf but thinks it’s her Granny].
Riding Hood: Hello, Granny.
Wolf [his voice soft, but croaking]: Come and kiss me, my dear.
[Then little Red Riding Hood takes off her cloak and goes to the bed].
Riding Hood: Oh, Grandmamma, Grandmamma, what big arms you’ve got!
Wolf: All the better to hug you with
Riding Hood: But, Grandmamma, Grandmamma, what big legs you have!
Wolf: All the better to run with, my dear.
Riding Hood: Oh, Grandmamma, Grandmamma, what big ears you’ve got!
Wolf: All the better to hear you with, my dear.
Riding Hood: But, Grandmamma, Grandmamma, what big eyes you’ve got!
Wolf: All the better to see you with, my dear!
Riding Hood: Oh, Grandmamma, Grandmamma, what big teeth you’ve got!
Wolf: All the better to eat you with, my dear!
Narrator: And with that, the wicked, wicked wolf gobbled up little Red Riding-Hood.
[The Wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood].
[The End]
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