Little Red Riding Hood

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 grandmothers 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 grandmothers 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 grandmothers house.

The wolf fools the grandmother, enters the hut and eats her. Then the
Wolf dresses himself in the grandmothers 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. Whats your name?
Riding Hood [with a tiny voice]: Im 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
Grannys; 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
shell 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 ladys 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 Hoods 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]: Whos 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 Grannys 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]: Whos there?

Riding Hood [whispers to herself]: What a gruff voice Granny has. Ah, maybe its
just because shes sick. [Then she answers the Wolf]: Its 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 its 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 youve 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 youve got!
Wolf: All the better to hear you with, my dear.
Riding Hood: But, Grandmamma, Grandmamma, what big eyes youve got!
Wolf: All the better to see you with, my dear!
Riding Hood: Oh, Grandmamma, Grandmamma, what big teeth youve got!
Wolf: All the better to eat you with, my dear!

Narrator: And with that, the wicked, wicked wolf gobbled up little Red RidingHood.
[The Wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood].
[The End]

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