Toscana Strings' double bass player and narrator Sophie Price has adapted this well known classic fairy tale with music composed by Julianne Bourne.

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"We all know the story of Little Red Riding Hood. A little girl goes for a stroll in the woods to visit her granny and meets a wolf. Gets to her granny’s house, thinks granny looks a little strange…works out it isn’t granny but the wolf in disguise who wants to gobble Little Red Riding Hood up!  Little Red Riding Hood happens to notice a woodcutter walking past who manages to extract granny from its stomach and fills the wolf’s tummy with stones so he never eats a human again. Meanwhile granny is absolutely fine and everyone lives happily ever after.

 

So does this sound plausible to you? It’s the version we all know. But what if there is another version of the story.

 

In our version of the story the little girl’s surname is Riding. She is called Red for short but it actually stands for Rebecca Evelyn Dorothy,  she wears a cloak and it has a hood, but the word hood is actually in capitals with dots between each letter and stands for Hideously, Outrageous, Over the top, Dance. Now if this is the case the story could go in a slightly different direction and maybe make a little more sense.

 

So let the story of Little RED Riding’s H.O.O.D commence…"

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RED enters the H.O.O.D. competition and with the help of the audience learns three different dance routines. When it comes to RED performing in the competition she can't decide which dance to perform so asks the audience to vote for their favourite dance; The Golden Goose, Run Gingerbread Man Run and The Beauty that Sleeps.