Le Petit Chaperon rouge

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was bored all alone in her house. Her overworked mother wouldn't let her go out alone. But the little girl eventually left the house to visit her grandmother, who lived on the other side of the forest. Let's take a walk in the woods, while the wolf's away. But in this story, the wolf is there, lurking around the corner.

Created in 2004, Le Petit Chaperon rouge is Joël Pommerat's first show for young audiences. A show that continues to tour, here and there in France but also abroad. Everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood, a classic of children's literature. Pommerat's adaptation sublimates Charles Perrault's version, propelling it into our modern world, without the artifices of that world. For although everything seems to have changed, the fears of childhood remain: the dark, silence, the unknown. Ancestral fears, inscribed in an immutable ritual, an obligatory passage that helps us grow up and face the world. Children may be afraid, but they're reckless. It's even said that they love to scare themselves. Perhaps fear has changed sides. Perhaps parents are projecting all their fears onto their offspring - their own, those of their childhood, those of the present, those of an uncertain future.