“Little Red Rosie and the Three Big Pigs” plays today.
Probably every kid who has ever heard the story of the Three Little Pigs has thought “what if the wolf wasn’t so big and bad?” Maplewood resident and playwright Jeff Larkin has illustrated how the little pigs' story and others would play out if the wolf in question was a good guy with an interest in environmental construction. “It’s kind of a fun, fractured fairy tale,” Larkin said of his creation “Little Red Rosie and the Three Big Pigs.” The play will be performed today at 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at Memorial Park. It debuted yesterday at 5 at Cameron Field in South Orange. The wolf isn’t the only fairy tale character skewed in the play. “This piece is a mash-up of the Little Red Riding Hood and Three Little Pigs story through the conduit …
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Performances will be held in Meadowland Park in South Orange and Memorial Park in Maplewood.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Performers have been announced for the second offering of "SOPAC Inside Out," a series of free outdoor performances for kids and families at Meadowland Park in South Orange and Memorial Park in Maplewood this month. SOPAC will present an original production of the fractured fairy tale Little Red Rosie and the Three Big Pigs by local playwrights Jeff Larkin and Nancy S. Chu. The cast includes Susan Leone (Mom and Granny), the director of Maplewood’s Jazzberries Kindermusic studio; Orange resident Hernell Gabriel (Flora the Pig); Gregory Omar Osborne (Gregory the Pig), a student at Montclair State University; Newark resident Pete Mars (Wolfgang), an NJ School of Dramatic Arts student; Maplewood resident Emma Leone (Rosie); Maplewood resident…
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