Background History: Mary grew up in the same town, also. She was a innocent, slightly nerdy school girl who read a lot, and had a number of admiring penpals. On her graduation night, she did not have a date to her prom- and all her friends did. Feeling terribly left out, and crummy about her self, she wandered down to a local pub/strip bar, and got slightly drunk for the first time in her life. In the bar that night was a young man- lean, looking glazedly content from liqour, and playing a banjo. He reminded her of all the boys at her school- the folk art crowd that he had worshiped from afar, and due to her intake of alcohol, procedded to fling herself at him. He smiled, and took her into the back room, simply joyful of his good fortune. Now, its not really known if he raped her, or what- but nine months later, Mary bore Wulf into the world. To her upright family- this was a very prominent disgrace- and for ten years or so, Mary raised Wulf alone while her family tried desperatly to hunt down that young man. They finaly did, and forced him to marry Mary- or put him in jail- since that was where he was going anyways. After the bail had been paid, this left Mary in the current situation she is in now. Mary is the heroine of the story- and she should be treated that way.
Clothes: Mary is not the nagging, gossiping mother that she could be made out to be- and she doesn't dress that way. In many ways, Mary is still a little girl in a world doesn't really know how to conquer- and she wears simple skirts, round toed shoes like her son, wool sweaters, etc. She is also mischeivous and playful like a child too- and she likes bright sundresses and flowers.
Role in Story: The one heroine. She is part of the love story.
Suitable Actor: Mary cannot be a stereotypical stage mother- overly worried about everything, nagging the neighbors, meddling in others affairs. She is a sweet, partly cynical, partly gentle woman who really cares for her son, and thinks he's a good person. She has pale hair, a simple, laughing face- and a straight foreward bearing. Her body moves like a doe (female deer). Think of bambis mother and snow white.
