Hoody is a tongue in cheek reworking of Little Red Riding Hood.  The schtick is that the characters have all fallen out of a copy of Perreault’s Once Upon A Time and ended up in Toronto.  In the process they have changed form so that LRRH is now a very large man (Graham Knox) and the Wolf is now a woman called Lu (Lu, loup geddit?) with an unfortunate addiction to human flesh.  It’s written by Dawna Wightman (who also plays Lu) and presented by Hoody Ink in the Solo Room at Tarragon as part of the Fringe.

There’s a third, unseen, character who represents the Woodcutter and is voiced by director Arthur French III who supplies Lu with “meat”; at a price.  Various shenanigans occur as the two characters negotiate their rather fraught relationship and come up with a way of avoiding the otherwise inevitable gory ending.

It’s cute and the performances are good.  Knox is absurd as a golden haired little girl and Wightman makes a pretty good street wise predator.  There are lots of jokes that work in other fairy tale characters like the Three Little Pigs and Little Bo Peep who now seems to be some kind of enforcer for the Woodcutter’s racket.  All in all it’s a decent Fringe show.

Photo credit: Marla Minshall