PETITE ROUGE
December 04 - May 05

Storyline: Little Red Riding Hood's dark forest is transformed into a swamp dripping with Spanish moss. There, Petite Rouge (Keittra Colombel), a duck with little red bows in her hair, lives with her mother (Tracy McMullan) and friend, TeJean (Isaiah Johnson), a 'fraidy cat who plays jazz harmonica. When Grandmere comes down with the flu, the mother prepares a care package of gumbo, corn bread, boudin sausage and hot sauce that'll melt your tongue down to the roots. She entrusts Petite Rouge and TeJean to deliver the basket, reminding them to go straight to Grandmere's house and then return home. But Petite Rouge is as eager to see the world as TeJean is inclined to plod the straight and narrow. They deviate from their route, arousing the appetite of Claude Prudhomme (Bobby Smith), a gourmand gator who whips up a marinade and prepares a roux for his prospective victims.