Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood)

Writer-director Joël Pommerat works with the Compagnie Louis Brouillard which he founded in 1990. Together, they create the plays he writes from start to finish.
Pommerat believes that writing for the stage does not end with the first day of rehearsals, to the contrary, it continues with the work with the actors, as much as with work on the scenography, lighting and sound.
Often described as “personal theatre”, Joël Pommerat's theatre is also ‘ theatre of the real', a sort of theatre that is deeply involved in our time. It is pure, meticulous craftsmanship where accuracy of gesture responds to the aptness of the spoken words to create and maintain a permanent link between the stage and the hall.
Since 1990, their fifteen plays (including Des Suées, Pôles, Treize étroites têtes, Mon ami, Grâce à mes yeux and D'une seule main) have taken Joël Pommerat and his company down this path, developing their original and disciplined approach which episode after episode, constructs a theatre universe which is familiar and mysterious, woven from unforgettable images..

This version of the popular fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood is a re-write by Joel Pommerat who adds his own experience, own adventures and fantasies. It also grants his wish to devote a theatrical work to children. Pommerat's version is primarily based on the action in the story, recounting precisely and simply the little girl's journey to her grandmother's house, along which she has to face the hostile forces of nature and the animal world. We are invited to see and hear the tale of an ‘initiation rite', the one the Little Red Riding Hood puts herself through when she dares to confront her fears and loneliness.
It is also a story of three generations united by blood, told through the enchanting folk tale that becomes a moving theatrical tale shared by a narrator, a little girl, a grandmother and a wolf who claims to be, and is positively, animal. Adults can rediscover in this play that indestructible piece of childhood which they possess and children can let their rich imaginations run free.
Jean-François Perrier

texte et mise en scène : Joël Pommerat
avec : Saadia Bentaiëb, Ludovic Molière, Florence Perrin
assistant à la mise en scène : Philippe Carbonneaux
assistante à la mise en scène à la création : Hélène Ducharne
scénographie et costumes : Marguerite Bordat
scénographie et lumières : Éric Soyer
suivi de la réalisation scénographique : Thomas Ramon
documentation : Evelyne Pommerat
implantation sonore et réalisation de l'écriture sonore : Grégoire Leymarie, François Leymarie
recherche sonore : Bruno Hocquard
régie son : Yann Priest
régie lumières : Julie Martin
direction technique : Emmanuel Abate

Production : Compagnie Louis Brouillard
en coproduction avec : le Centre dramatique régional de Tours, le Théâtre Brétigny - Scène conventionnée du Val d'Orge, le Festival Théâtre en région - Région Haute-Normandie
texte publié : aux éditions Actes Sud-Papiers Heyoka Jeunesse
Remerciements à : l'association Éveil artistique