Go on Wolfie, make my day! (From Tewkesbury Admag)

Go on Wolfie, make my day!

THE classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood gets a completely new slant at Pittville Pump Rooms in Cheltenham on Saturday.

Roald Dahl's re-working of the poem, in which the intended victim is far from helpless as she pulls a gun from her knickers, has been set to music by composer Paul Patterson. Narrators tell the tale and act the parts of the three characters.

It will be performed at the Pump Rooms as one of three pieces in a concert (5.30pm) by the Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra.

Malcolm Arnold's Scottish Dances are sure to get feet tapping throughout the hall. A portrait of a seriously inebriated bassoon player is typical of the humour that Arnold introduces.

The Carol Symphony of Victor Hely-Hutchinson works well-known carols into the symphonic format.

The orchestra, under conductor David Curtis, is joined by the choir of Leckhampton Junior School in two carols by John Rutter, the beautiful Mary's Lullaby and the Donkey Carol, which seems to suggest that the donkey has a pronounced limp.

Tickets are available from the town hall box office or call 01242 227979. Some tickets may be available on the door.