Overview
Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves is the debut play of up-and-coming playwright Sarah DeLappe. Featuring an all-female cast (comprised of nine adolescents and one briefly-seen adult), The Wolves chronicles six Saturday mornings in the lives of a soccer team somewhere in suburban America as they prepare for their games. The girls discuss everything from genocide to menstrual cycles to drugs to boys to literature to each other, and a group of girls whom at first seem indistinguishable as each is referred to by only her number and all are clad in the same jersey only bearing her number quickly become identifiable and different. In the course of six short weeks, the Wolves deal with love, loss, and identity in ways that real teenagers do.
Show Information
- Book
- Sarah DeLappe
- Category
- Play
- Age Guidance
- Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
- Number of Acts
- 1
- First Produced
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Dark Comedy
- Settings
- Unit/Single Set
- Time & Place
- An indoor soccer field somewhere in Suburban America, winter, Saturdays
- Cast Size
- medium
- Orchestra Size
- None
- Dancing
- None
- Licensor
- Samuel French
- Ideal For
- All-Female Cast, College/University, High School, Professional Theatre, Includes Late Teen, Young Adult, Adult Characters, Medium Cast
Context
Sarah DeLappe was a student in the MFA playwriting program at Brooklyn College when she was attending “Here and Elsewhere,” an exhibit at the New Museum that was displaying art of the Arab World, highlighting the constant conflict plaguing that region of the planet. DeLappe was taken aback by the fact that these cultured, metropolitan New Yorkers were only briefly discussing and appreciating the art and then talking about everything else they had going on in their lives. On the subway ride
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Each scene in The Wolves is a warm-up for a competitive soccer game; the Wolves is a team made up of nine girls; each player is referred to by only her jersey number.
Week One: The Cambodian
The Wolves are sitting in uniform in a circle stretching for the first game of their season. They perform the stretches in unison, knowing exactly what comes next and after what amount of time. Multiple conversations are going on at once. Most of the girls are talking about the deadly Communist
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Spoken |
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Female |
Spoken |
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Female |
Spoken |
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Lead |
Female |
Spoken |
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Lead |
Female |
Spoken |
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Lead |
Female |
Spoken |
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Lead |
Female |
Spoken |
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Lead |
Female |
Spoken |
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Lead |
Female |
Spoken |
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Featured |
Female |
Spoken |
Songs
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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