24th April

This lesson we ran through the whole story from the beginning including the opening. I thing it is really coming together and we know the first bit pretty well but I don't think it will be as good as it can be until we actually have children to talk and interact with. We then added on to the story starting with little red skipping through the trees but becoming lost. We then created a bit that depends highly on audience participation where little red asks what way she should go because she has become lost in the woods. The wolf is hiding behind the trees and the point is the children tell her to go away from the wold but he keeps moving so it goes backwards and forwards, a bit like a pantomime. The wolf eventually sends little red the wrong way to her grandmas house so he can get there first and then he hides her grandmother under the bed. Then little red enters and does the traditional dialogue of, "grandma how big your ears are!", and so on until he steals her cookies. The scene inside the cottage then freezes and the narrator becomes the woodsman and goes to help little red. We chose to make the ending happy without anyone being eating so it would not upset any of the children, so the wolf only stole the cookies because he was hungry and the grandma was safe, just hidden under the bed.

I think this ending is more age appropraite for our audience than the original ending where the wolf eats the grandmother and red and is then cut open by the woodsman, therefore making it entertaining and suitable for our audience.