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Auditions
Script 1

Red Riding Hood: I do believe, since you got here before me, that you owe me a kiss. What big teeth you
have!

Werewolf: (Choking – grabbing at straws.) All the better… to eat you with.

Red Riding Hood: Oh, I say! (She goes into peals of laughter.) Well, each to his meat but I am meat for no
man! Now shall I burn your clothes, just like I burned my own…

Werewolf: Not that!

Red Riding Hood: Why, anybody would think you were scared of being a good wolf all the time…

(Flames blaze)

Red Riding Hood: And now I shall see you as the good wolf you are, the honest wolf, the kind wolf. For
to their own, the wolves are tender, are they not? If you were truly a wolf, would you not let me climb
up on your back and take me home through the forest? (Bring up fire, wolves and storm outside right.)

Werewolf: (furry voice.) Outside’s not the place to be, tonight, the snow, the freezing blast… stay
indoors with me, lie down on Granny’s bed…

Red Riding Hood: What, make ourselves cosy?

(Bed creaks.)

Red Riding Hood: There we are… lay your head in my lap, there… your great, great grizzled head… let me
scratch your lovely ears, you can hear the clouds move, can’t you, you can hear the grass grow, such
sensitive ears, so quick of hearing… and I can see the lice move on your fur, poor beast…

(Growl.)

Red Riding Hood: And Shall I pick the lice out, would that be a kindness to you…

(Appreciative growl. Clock whirs – about to strike. Clock strikes twelve – fade down while it is still
striking. Distant wind. Fire.)

Narrator: Midnight. The blizzard will die down; the door of the solstice stands wide open.

Red Riding Hood: (Yawns) She’s drowsy, she’s sleepy… how soft your fur is! Warm!

(Clock out.)
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Script 2

Werewolf: When I was a man, I heard a story that, then, I did not believe because I thought that all the
wolves were as I.

How there was a woman lived on the mountain and she went into labour in winter, in a storm, and bore
her little daughter and died of it, nobody by but her husband. He did what he could but when there was
no hope for her, he went off to the village to fetch the priest, the snow falling, the wind blowing, and the
ice on the river broke under him, he drowned.

When the storm passed off, this woman’s mother went out to see after her and found a corpse but no
baby, not a trace, so they all thought the wolves had eaten her. And seven years went by, until another
hard winter when the wolves came out of the forest, after the goats, and the dead woman’s mother saw
a creature with long hair, that might have been a little girl, and she running with them. And they found
footprints among the pawprints. Footprints.

So they scoured the mountain and found the child in a cave, with an old, grey wolf they shot when it
jumped up at them. Then they took the girl back to the village and locked her in a barn, but she howled;
how she howled. She howled until she brought every wolf out from all over the forest, dozens of them,
hundreds of them, howling in concert as if demented, and the wolves laid siege to the barn and would
let nobody near and the girl ran away with them.

And seven years later, the old woman, she was out gathering mushrooms, she saw a grown woman with
two pups, kneeling by the river, lapping up water. But when the old woman called out ‘My dear one, my
pet, come back to me!’ off the other one ran to where her friends were waiting.

Are you listening? Are you sleeping?

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Script 3

As soon as Wolf began to feel In came the little girl in red.

That he would like a decent meal, She stopped. She stared. And then she said,
He went and knocked on Grandma's door. "What great big ears you have, Grandma."
When Grandma opened it, she saw   "All the better to hear you with,"
The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin, the Wolf replied.
And Wolfie said, "May I come in?" "What great big eyes you have, Grandma."
Poor Grandmamma was terrified, said Little Red Riding Hood.
"He's going to eat me up!" she cried. "All the better to see you with,"
And she was absolutely right. the Wolf replied.
He ate her up in one big bite.
But Grandmamma was small and tough,
He sat there watching her and smiled.
And Wolfie wailed, "That's not enough!
He thought, I'm going to eat this child.
I haven't yet begun to feel
Compared with her old Grandmamma,
That I have had a decent meal!"
She's going to taste like caviar.
He ran around the kitchen yelping,
"I've got to have a second helping!"
Then Little Red Riding Hood said, "
But Grandma, what a lovely great big
Then added with a frightful leer,
furry coat you have on."
"I'm therefore going to wait right here
Till Little Miss Red Riding Hood
"That's wrong!" cried Wolf.
Comes home from walking in the wood."
"Have you forgot
To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
He quickly put on Grandma's clothes,
Ah well, no matter what you say,
(Of course he hadn't eaten those).
I'm going to eat you anyway."
He dressed himself in coat and hat.
He put on shoes, and after that,
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
He even brushed and curled his hair,
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
Then sat himself in Grandma's chair.
She aims it at the creature's head,
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.

A few weeks later, in the wood,

I came across Miss Riding Hood.
But what a change! No cloak of red,
No silly hood upon her head.
She said, "Hello, and do please note
My lovely furry wolfskin coat."