Reimagined Red Riding Hood turns toy-car racer as Hong Kong puts family shows on starting grid
- ‘Red Racing Hood’, performed by Australia’s Terrapin Puppet Theatre, forms part of city’s four-month-long ‘Cheers!’ Series of children’s entertainments
As every parent knows, telling stories can be a good way to entertain children while helping them to learn about the world around them.
Watching stories brought to life on the stage of a theatre can be even more amusing.
Theatre and shows can be a fun way for children to explore different cultures in an engaging way that’s easy on children’s attention’s spans
Just as in books or on television, stories portrayed on the stage often include characters, places and themes quite far removed from what children might experience in daily life.
Yet as long as the stories being told are designed for a young audience, they can be a good opportunity for fostering open-mindedness, child psychologist Lora Lee says.
“Theatre and shows can be a fun way for children to explore different cultures in an engaging way that’s easy on children’s attention’s spans,” Lee says
“If they’re done with children as the audience in mind, shows can help children make a connection to another culture.”
A good children’s story is one that they can visualise – and picture themselves within, Lee says.
