What we hear, what we smell, what we touch, what we see every day is just an infinitely small part of the world. The woman leaves behind a husband, friends, and a career. A forbidden passion has enraged her. It has made her a wolf. Happiness has a wildness to it. The heroine claims it alongside her place in the world.

She could be a modern Nora, she could be the Beauty of the fairy tale. But she is both Beauty and the Beast... What is the nature of desire? And what are its boundaries? What happens when someone transcends them and decides to return to their primal self?

"I miss him so much that my body aches," says the Woman as she gives in to instinct. "To become an animal, big, strong, wild, all muscle and instinct." Elena Pega signs a modern allegory about culture and wildness. A fairy tale with realistic dialogue, depicting situations reminiscent of stories from the news, focusing on the conflict between the two genders, between the self and the being, between human nature and the social conventions that restrict it.

A constant sense of threat and anxiety in a dreamlike, almost nightmarish landscape defines the atmosphere of the work and darkens it even further. The Woman and the Wolf was presented in May 2014 at the Écrire et mettre en scène aujourd’hui Festival in Caen, directed by Elli Papakonstantinou, translated by Dimitra Kondylaki, with French actors.