New Little Red Riding Hood

MOTHER: Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good.

RED CAP: Yes, mama.

MOTHER: Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go into her room, don't forget to say, 'Good-morning,' and don't peep into every corner before you do it.

RED CAP: I will take great care.

Scene III**

Grandmother’s house on the other side of the woods. The bedroom at the center, furnished only with a bed, a  chair and a commode. This is the bedroom of a very old and sick woman, a bedroom that has not been cleaned for at least a month. However, needlework examples are covering the commode and the chair, to demonstrate that the room knew better times when Grandmother was healthy.

 Music is heard. It is slow and sinister, it is horrifying.

Grandmother is in bed. Loud knock at the door is heard.

GRANDMOTHER: in a weak voice: Who is there?

WOLF: in a high voice: Little Red Cap. I brought cake and wine, open the door.

GRANDMOTHER: Lift the hatch, I am too weak, I cannot get up.

The sinister  music grows louder as the wolf goes straight to Grandmother to devour her.