In-depth class notes on the play: Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Metaphors
Covers the following areas: background & playwright’s intentions, the sustainable development goals, themes, structure and plot line, genre & style, relevance & efficacy and metaphors & symbols
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Little Red Riding Hood and The
Big Bad Metaphors
BACKGROUND AND PLAYWRIGHT’S INTENTIONS
“I eventually decided to produce a work that recognises that not many people know
about the Sustainable Development Goals so that the play would be a vehicle for
awareness-raising and as a catalyst for debate notwithstanding this, the piece
should pursue its educational role as theatrically as possible, so that the play would
cover all 17 goals - some of them more cursorily than others - with different
theatrical styles employed throughout the piece to keep it interesting for the
audience, and allow the director and cast to explore and participate in a variety of
theatrical forms. While being educational, the piece would also offer critical
commentary on the goals and their capacity for being realised.” ~ Mike Van Graan
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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, The SDGs, also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in
2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure
that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
The 17 SDGs are integrated - they recognise that action in one area will affect the
outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and
environmental sustainability.
The SDGs in the play are a direct comment to the lack of political commitment to
ensuring that they are accomplished by 2030.
❓ Goal 1: NO POVERTY
—> The eradication of poverty involves targeting the most vulnerable, increasing
basic resources and services, and supporting communities affected by conflict and
climate-related disasters.
Examples in LRRH:
The little pigs who cannot afford to buy houses in a “decent” area and are
relegated (assigned an inferior rank or position to) to living on the “outskirts” of
society. Their poverty is in direct contrast to the 1% on the “Island of Wealth”.
Mr Hood going to look for work, so as to have money to support his family.
Hurricane Donald as a climate-related disaster and all that he has affected.
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