Cork New Children's Theatre Festival - August 2000. The company at that time was called eighthonion, and comprised four performers.
A piggy pantomime for all the family, apple sauce starts off as Little Red Riding Hood, but things quickly change when Granny gets bored of Mr Wolf and decides she doesn't want to play that game anymore. Events get even crazier when her halfwit son and his greedy wife decide they are going to try and pass off one little piggy as a human child.
Throw in a sparkling fairy and a magic spider along for the ride, and this new play for children will delight with apples going everywhere, and plenty of chances for the audience to help out a piggy in distress.
Will there be roast pork for tea?
Will Granny ever get a word of sense out of her son?
How will the wolf survive if nobody wants to be eaten?
There's only one way to find out...
apple sauce played from the 1st to the12th of August at the Triskel Theatre, Cork. It drew praise from parents, children, press and festival organisers, becoming the most successful show of the festival.