How to Make a Good Little Red Riding Hood? by Christian Jolibois & Romain Drac
after Charles Perrault

An audience directed bilingual show

London French Institute

Directed by Fanny Dulin

A woman in a wolf costume performs a theatrical act in front of an audience in a library setting, with children watching in the foreground.
A woman dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, wearing a red cape, red skirt, black top, and red tights, standing onstage with bookshelves in the background, holding a wicker basket.
Person dressed as a pig, wearing a pink headband with pig ears, glasses, a fake snout, a black hoodie with the hood up, a white tie, and gray pants, standing in front of a yellow wall decorated with tree drawings and a bookshelf.

Charles Perrault is certainly the most famous French author of children’s tales. He inspired Hoffman, Brothers Grimm, and many more with his unequalled classic Children Stories: BlueBeard, Little Thumbling, Sleeping Beauty, and The Little Red Riding Hood. He’s the most appropriate choice to open the Saturday French Tales season in January 2011. Exchange Theatre takes a look at what it is to be the most celebrated Children’s writer in How to make a good Little Red Riding Hood.

A theatrical performance with two women onstage. One is sitting at a small wooden table, dressed in a blue costume, writing something. The other, dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, stands nearby.

Creative Team

Adapted by David Furlong

Directed by Fanny Dulin

With Ben Cooper, John Mc Quaid, Fanny Dulin, Charlotte Withaker, Claire Meade and David Furlong

A person dressed in a wig as Charles Perrault reading to a group of children seated on the floor in a library.
Three people performing a theatrical play on stage in front of children audience in a library setting. Little Red and the wolf converse as Charles writes.