Characters, Props and Descriptions

Characters
Child
- Young, 15/16
- Male
- Past experiences of his mother treating him badly, being locked away and being diagnosed with a mental illness. He was taken to a mental institution at the age of 11. 

Mother
- Middle-aged
- Female
- Her husband has turned into a pyscho and mistreated both his son and his wife (the mother) and this has led to them being held in extremely poor conditions, not feeding them for days at a time. She is also now diagnosed with polio and slowly and painfully dying. She's a very poor women and her husband is not allowing her to get the treatment she needs to live on and so she evidently dies in the opening scenes. 


Costumes
- Dirty, old, unwashed shirt for the boy. With a pair of colour faded muddy jeans or ripped trackies. (straight jacket?)

- For the mother, an old dirty dress or a tattered top/shirt and dirty trousers. A thin and small cardigan to keep her warm but with no effect.

Both costumes would need to be dirty and unkept to represent the location. The Farm would be very muddy and dusty, and because of the lack of money and the poverty they're in. A stereotype of these two characters would be to be unkept and dressed messily and not smart.



Props
Mum - Walking stick to aid with the idea that she's very weak and struggles to live.
Padlock and chain - to use to lock the door, old and rusty preferably.

This was taken from Tom's blog where he has added this, however I have edited it and changed it slightly to fit our current themes and more required props.