Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a quiet and meek boy existing at the bottom of the social hierarchy. He’s the constant target of bullies and has no real friends. Withdrawn and depressed, he fantasizes about getting violent revenge on his tormentors but doesn’t have the courage. That all begins to change when he befriends his new mysterious neighbor, Eli, a vampire who encourages him to stand up for himself.
Personality... quiet, meek, awkward, and trusting. Oskar is a morbid boy fixated on death, evidenced by his collection of newspaper clippings and magazine articles about grisly murders. While he harbors violent impulses, they seem to have been born out of his constant mistreatment, and not from a deficit of empathy. He is sweet and protective of the people who are kind to him– although that's a disappointingly small population.
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Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates. At home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
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Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre, 2014Oskar is a bullied, lonely, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the neighbourhood.Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn't know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time...
