Das Plateau
Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Friday, May 30, 2025
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Directed by Céleste Germe
Starring Antoine Oppenheim, Maëlys Ricordeau
In French with English surtitles (May 30 evening); In English (May 31 matinee)
45min (no intermission)
Little Red Riding Hood is one of the first—and most popular—stories read to children, featuring such spellbinding charm that generations have grown up with. In this production, Das Plateau brings the time-honored tale to life. With thoroughly immersive imagery—the landscapes, the forest, the red stain, the sun bursting through the dark canopies—and unforgettable characters—the wolf, the child, the mother, the grandmother, and the hunter—this new production promises to charm a new generation of audiences.
This powerful interpretation of the Brothers Grimm story emphasizes Little Red Riding Hood’s valiant and courageous spirit. The result is a rediscovery of the narrative, much more subversive than one might think, which asserts the right to mystery, pleasure, freedom, and fear. Or as Little Red Riding Hood says, “Let’s walk in the woods while the wolf is away.”
Little Red Riding Hood is presented by L’Alliance New York.
Céleste Germe is a director and co-founder of the collective Das Plateau.
In 2008, after studying performing arts at the University of Nanterre and architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, she founded Das Plateau alongside Jacques Albert, Maëlys Ricordeau and Jacob Stambach. Within the collective, she directs all the creations, whether they are theatrical, cinematographic, or audio. Training and transmission are also central to her activities. She conducts numerous awareness- raising workshops and is a regular speaker at drama schools, including Ecole du TNB, Théâtre du Nord, ENSATT in Lyon, La Manufacture and Les Teintureries in Lausanne.
In 2024-25, Pénélopes, a light, site-specific work based on Homer’s Odyssey and interviews with local residents, and Le Petit Chaperon rouge, created in 2022 at the Avignon Festival, will tour France and the United States. In March 2025, she created Lac Artificiel by Marine Chartrain at Théâtre Ouvert. In autumn 2025, she will stage her next large-scale show, Un jour sans vent (Une Orestie), a writing commission from poet and playwright Milène Tournier.
Das Plateau was founded in 2008. Its members are architect and stage director Céleste Germe, actress Maëlys Ricordeau, author-composer Jacob Stambach and writer and dancer Jacques Albert. Their hybrid productions combine theatre, literature, music and visual arts.
Many of Das Plateau’s projects (Cours les Prairies, Notre Printemps, SIG Sauer Pro, Le Bon Chemin and Dia de Macho, Vispera de Nada) are based on texts by Jacques Albert, published by Les Editions Théâtrales, but the collective is currently working with contemporary texts, particularly by women writers such as Marie Darrieussecq (Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes, 2016) or Pauline Peyrade (Bois Impériaux, 2018 and Poings, 2020). Its productions aim to reveal the underside of things that cannot be spoken or explained, that cannot be dissolved or resolved in the complexity of the world. Endeavouring to establish a new form of tragedy, the beauty they create on stage is imprinted with the violence of the world – but conveys the possibility of hope.
In addition to workshops and encounters organized nationwide to raise awareness of contemporary theatre, Das Plateau teaches stage direction and production at several drama schools – the Manufacture and the Teintureries in Lausanne, the drama schools of the Théâtre National de Bretagne and the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, the ENSATT in Lyon and the ESAD in Paris – and on in-company training programs.
In 2024-25, Pénélopes, a light, site-specific work based on Homer’s Odyssey and interviews with local residents, and Le Petit Chaperon rouge, created in 2022 at the Avignon Festival, will tour France and the United States. In March 2025, Das Plateau created Lac Artificiel by Marine Chartrain at Théâtre Ouvert. In autumn 2025, Das Plateau will stage her next large-scale show, Un jour sans vent (Une Orestie), a writing commission from poet and playwright Milène Tournier.
Text by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and fragments of Futur, ancien, fugitif by Olivier Cadiot
French translation by Natacha Rimasson-Fertin, Éditions Corti
Stage direction: Céleste Germe
Conception: Céleste Germe and Maëlys Ricordeau
With : Antoine Oppenheim and Maëlys Ricordeau
Music composition and sound management: J. Stambach
Set design: James Brandily
Video: Flavie Trichet-Lespagnol
Video and sound design: Jérome Tuncer
Lights: Sébastien Lefèvre
Costumes: Sabine Schlemmer
Dramaturgical advice: Marion Stoufflet
Assistant director: Mathilde Wind
General and stage management: Pablo Simonet
Sculptures: Julia Morlot and Jérémy Page
Wolf skin manufacture: Pascale Dufay
Set construction monitoring: Benjamin Bertrand
Administration, production, distribution: Bureau de production Retors Particulier
Coproduction and residency
Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine, Le Grand R, Scène nationale de La Roche-sur-Yon
Coproduction
Théâtre Nouvelle Génération centre dramatique national (Lyon), Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers CDN, La Comédie de Colmar – Centre dramatique National Grand Est Alsace, Comédie de Reims – Centre dramatique national de Reims, Théâtre Gérard Philipe Centre dramatique national de Saint-Denis, La Villette, Paris – Initiatives d’artistes, CRÉA / Festival Momix / Scène conventionnée d’Intérêt National “Art Enfance Jeunesse” (Kingersheim), Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes), Le Grand Bleu, Scène conventionnée d’Intérêt National – Art, Enfance et Jeunesse (Lille)
Residency
Ferme du Buisson, scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée
Support
Théâtre de Brétigny, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national arts & humanités
Financed by
Région Île-de-France, Fonds de production de la DGCA, le Département du Val-de-Marne
Das Plateau is subsidized by the DRAC Île-de-France, is supported by the Région île-de-France under the aid for cultural and artistic permanency, and by the Département of Essonne as part of the aid to territorial residency. Das Plateau belongs to the 360 theater compagny collective.
Little Red Riding Hood at L’Alliance New York is made possible with the generous support of the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Header Image: Little Red Riding Hood | Das Plateau (c) Simon Gosselin
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It’s one of the first—and most popular—stories read to children, featuring such spellbinding charm that generations have grown up loving it. In this production for young viewers, Das Plateau brings the time-honored Brothers Grimm tale to life through immersive imagery, unforgettable characters, and an empowering interpretation.
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