The woods
The plot
Characters
Key themes
mental illness
Motherhood
Infanticide
A women finds a boy in the snow
she nurses him back to health
She is followed through the forest by a wolf who keeps tormenting and abusing her
flashes back to a baby monitor
the woman talks with the boy
The wolf destroys the shack and the word disapears
The wolf arrives as a policeman and the woman is on the edge of a bridge, it becomes the forest again
She is now in a shop with the wolf being on the til, he reveals he has a gun which he turns on himself
She's then in a park where she gets abused by some youths, the wolf shows up and offers her a child. The wolf then becomes frantic and starts chasing and taunting her
The wolf is then dressed as a doctor and is analysing the woman
The women tells the boy a story about his birth, the wolf then comes on stage and insists only she can walk through the light. She leaves the boy, who the wolf goes over and hugs
Woman
Never given a name
Woods possibly a reflection of her mental health
killed her child
struggles with motherhood
Changes accents
Afraid of wolf
The wolf
Could be the woman's guilty conscience
threatening
belittles woman
could be an abusive relationship with the woman
takes on different costumes
Black comedy
Lets the woman leave but without the boy
The boy
Real or figment of the woman's imagination?
Learn very little about him
gets called Mathew by the woman
He's a teenager but portrays himself a lot younger
found in the woods alone
Asleep or passed out a lot of the time