Little Red Riding Hood, which runs from Wednesday until 20 January, was written by Mrs Kennedy's late husband Joe.

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Grimm starts off with a modern day retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

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The story itself melds the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood with Japanese folklore from the Edo era.

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Meg Kennedy, 82, of Westcliff-on-Sea, is currently playing a teacher in Little Red Riding Hood at the Palace Theatre in Southend.

BBC: Meg Kennedy, 82, marks 66 years on stage

Some are easy, like Little Red Riding Hood, but others such as Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Mary Poppins are tougher, but make perfect sense.

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Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is something of a folkloric hybrid: half Little Red Riding Hood, half Japanese myth, the game is a lovely, highly-stylized action-RPG from developer American McGee and Spicy Horse Games.

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This is also the land of the deep, dark woods that Little Red Riding Hood skipped through, the land of towers tall enough for Rapunzel, and charming chocolate-box houses to tempt Hansel and Gretel.

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Stories like Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel might be fantasy, but in the days when wolves and outlaws patrolled the forest, they were a warning for children to keep out of the woods.

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The narrator becomes a young boy (alternately played by Noah Radcliffe and Jack Broderick) who wanders into a nearby forest to escape a family argument and gets swept up in the fast-unfolding plot, in which Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who brought down the beanstalk) run collectively afoul of a witch, a wolf and a giant.

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