From this list I took a particular interest in the character
of the “Wolf” who is often painted as the “villain” in most stories and so I thought
of what would happen if he was in fact not to blame for the mishaps in the
fairytales.
Our initial idea from this concept was that the Wolf has
been blamed for blowing down the pigs houses and for dressing up as Grandma and
eating her. We then thought that it could be that the Wolf is in fact a nice,
kind animal that spends his life being mistaken for a “villain” and the story
we tell is the Wolf clearing his name.
We then brainstormed possible ideas that could be used in
this story concept:
As a starting point we played with the idea of twisting the
story so that the Wolf is “good” whereas the three Pigs are the “villains”. We
then researched other “Wolf” stories to see where else we could take the story
and found the fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and the story “The Wolf in Sheep’s
Clothing” allowing us to consider bringing further fairytale aspects into our
story. To further research the idea we looked into films such as “Hoodwinked”,
Happily N’ever After” and “Shrek Forever After” as they all tell fairytales in
a twisted way and in some cases flip the story on its head. These films gave us
a general overview of how a fairytale can be twisted and allowed us to further
delve into the idea of how our “Wolf” is not like everyone assumes.
· The Wolf is the youngest of three brothers and
has been bullied into blowing the Pigs houses down – possibly a rite of passage
· The Wolf has been framed, could start by
speaking to the audience: “You’ve heard that story about a wolf eating three
pigs and eating a grandma? Well, that wasn’t me!” Could create a re-enactment
of the story that we universally know and then spend the rest of the piece
showing how it is incorrect.
· “Don’t judge a book by a cover” – just because
he’s a Wolf doesn’t mean he is a vicious killer, he could be misunderstood.
We looked at ways we could make references to the stories in
a “twisted” way, for example the Wolf “huffed and puffed” because he had
asthma. This led me to going away and researching the “Big Bad Wolf” and
finding a story written by Jon Scieszka: “The True Story of the Three Little
Pigs” which is told from the Wolf’s perspective and tells how he ran out of
sugar when baking a cake and so went to each of the Pig’s houses asking for
sugar but sneezed resulting in the house falling down. I really liked this idea
and I found it a refreshing way of telling the story and so was eager for our
group to put our own spin on the story of the Wolf.
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