język polskijęzyk angielski

Little Red Riding Hood

Genre
Drama
Female cast
Male cast
Original language of the play
Details
1st prize in the Anna and Piotr Dobrowolski’s Silesian Shakespeare Contest
Original title
Czerwony kapturek

Little Red Riding Hood is a story based on fairy-tale scheme, but targeted at adults and, above all, viewers entering adulthood. Its main focus is the initiation, transgression, entering successive life stages, which is usually a process laced with pain. The protagonist becomes a young woman. She tries to come to an understanding with her Grandma, who gazes upon her granddaughter with envy of her vitality and naivety. Communication between them is difficult because of a generation gap, but it is much harder for Little Red Riding Hood to communicate with her father – the Hunter. He worries about her adolescent daughter, feeling that he sacrifices her to the cruel adult world (especially to men – symbolic devourers). In this structure the Wolf is not only a personification of danger, but also a guide leading characters to the other side. The Wolf could be perceived as a Death figure, but it is worth to look at him as a catalyst of a change (that is, death perceived symbolically, as a change, a threshold in life, the end of a certain stage). Błażewicz shows us that change is the core of every fairytale – but change always has its price. Author mixes poetic language with pop culture references and therefore he creates the suggestive image of metaphorical vast dark forest and Wolf’s stomach – the only place where characters can be finally reunited.