Better forests

A family of wolves struggles through the snow. As they flee, the parents tell their cubs about the “Better Forests,” where prey is said to be plentiful and no one needs to fear hunters! Soon the little wolf has to fend for himself and collapses in the cold. He is found by a pair of sheep who cannot have children of their own. They take the wolf cub in, name him Ferdinand, and raise him with love in the idyllic sheep community.
The new parents keep their secret, and no one suspects that Ferdinand might not be a sheep. Not his best friend Beck, nor his first girlfriend Melanie, and certainly not Ferdinand himself: Though he jumps over fences – and sheep don’t do that! – no one sings “Sheep Maria” as devoutly as he does. Ferdinand is the hero of the flock!
Melanie, meanwhile, wants out of the dreary sheep community. She dreams of her own wool production and the big wide world. She persuades Ferdinand to take a detour to the other side of the protective fence, where it’s said to be excitingly dangerous and definitely different. But the outing goes wrong: once over the fence, the two encounter a she-wolf. And when a murder finally occurs in the flock, Ferdinand’s idyllic sheep world threatens to shatter, for everyone is certain that only a wolf could have done it.


A play about the questions of who you want to be, who you can be, and why you should be exactly who you are.