Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:39:51 -0500
From: Preston Foerder <slovpete-AT-telesouth1.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Politically correct endings


Reminds me of a show I once saw performed by National Shadow Theatre of Beijing
at the Charleville Festival in France, called "Hunting the Wolf".   There were
all these Disney-esque cute little bunnies, and monkeys, and bears, wearing
clothes and skipping and dancing on two legs.  Then an evil looking, more
realistic, wolf scared them all away, skulked around and left.  The cute little
animals returned, skipping and dancing, and dug a hole in the ground,  covered
it with leaves, and hid behind a tree.   The wolf returned and fell into the
trap.  All the cute little animals, then, came out from their hiding place, and
threw rocks down on the wolf.  Then they dropped a rope down into the pit,
caught the wolf by the tale and pulled him up into a tree. Then all the cute
little bunnies, and monkeys, and bears took sticks and beat the wolf to death.
They skipped and danced happily off, dragging the dead body of the wolf off
behind them.  Guess the pre-school audiences are different in China than they
are here.

Preston

cgale-AT-turbonet.com wrote:

> Hi Susan,
>
> There is a website at http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/lrrh/lrrhhome.htm
> that has about 16 different versions of Little Red Riding Hood. FWIW, there
> is also a children's picture book by Ed Young called _Lon Po Po_ that is a
> variant of the story from China, where the children outwit the wolf.
>
> Batsy
> Moscow Mountain in Moscow, Idaho
> cgale-AT-turbonet.com   208-883-3666
> http://www.tiac.net/users/papajoe/bats00.htm
>
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