Little Red Riding Hood Physical Theatre

The given stimulus was “Little Red Riding Hood - Physical Theatre “ in which I was immensely intrigued. Quite simply, physical theatre can be described as a form of theatre that puts emphasis on movement rather than dialogue. I thought that we should certainly use aspects of physical theatre but it was important to not purely use physical theatre but to include other dramatic elements too. As soon as possible I decided to brainstorm different physical theatre aspects of Little Red Riding Hood. After reading an article on the underlying meaning behind Little Red Riding Hood I learnt that we should incorporate gory detail and hyperbolic actions into the devised piece and amplify the levels as the piece develops.

I then read Charles Perrault”s version ,Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s , Polish,Austrian,French and Charles Marelles’s. After discussion with my group we decided to loosely follow the Brother Grimm’s version up

Also, characterisation was an important aim for me because most of the time when i wasn't little red riding hood or the wolf then i would be some kind of inanimate object or part of the forest so it was important for me to quickly adapt to the situation and clearly change character . At this point we had planned out seven main scenes in the piece, which meant all actors could be the wolf and little red riding hood at least once. We stuck to this seven point sequence but left gaps in the sequence so that we could fill it if we wanted to add in extra details. After reading the versions of little red riding hood’s tale I found that there were three important elements in the tale which were the importance of obeying parents,the wisdom of being cautious with strangers and the reliability of one’s early warning