Adapting the original tale

The original tale is widely known by everyone. The 3 Little Pigs is one of the most famous classic stories ever. To perform this and make it interested to an audience that already knows the narrative, we needed to adapt it. We added things such as slapstick events, but we also had inspiration from other tales, both classic and modern, to make a unique, exciting story for the children to enjoy.

We firstly added little references to Little Red Riding Hood, with the whole "what big teeth you have" conversation that she has with the wolf in that tale. This was firstly questionable as to whether the kids would catch on to it, but if not we also had various teachers supervising the kids, and therefore that reference was in place for them too.

We also added songs from Frozen, with altered lyrics to align with the narrative. This, upon performing the production, proved to be a great idea, as the kids recognised the songs instantly, but enjoyed hearing the new lyrics. Frozen is a massively popular story for the youth of today, and so the decision to input this into our tale was a good idea.

We performed dance pieces too, again modernising and adapting the original tale, and making the story exciting and engaging, without changing any of the original narrative itself.

A decision was made to focus the ending around a Christmas theme, as Christmas was looming over the date of the production. Therefore we made the Wolf come in and apologise, and taught the message of forgiveness to the children in the spirit of Christmas. This differs from the original tale but was well received by the audiences from both schools.