The Wolves

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The Wolves

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  10w

Sarah DeLappe

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.

Image: 2016 Playwrights Realm Production (Daniel Velasquez)

The Wolves

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    10w
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)
Accolades
Accolades

  • Finalist! 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Winner! 2015 Relentless Award for Playwriting

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Summary

CRITIC'S PICK! “The scary, exhilarating brightness of raw adolescence emanates from every scene of this uncannily assured first play by Sarah DeLappe.” – The New York Times

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals. 

History
The Wolves premiered in a production by The Playwright's Realm at The Duke on 42nd Street Theater in New York City in August 2016 under the direction of Lila Neugebauer.
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Performing Groups
#11 - Midfield. Brainy, morbid, budding elitist, thoughtful. Seventeen. 
#25 - Defense, Captain. Classic (ex)coach’s daughter. Seventeen.
#13 - Midfield. Stoner, older pot dealer brother, into her wackiness. Sixteen.
#46 - Bench. New girl. Awkward, different, just wants to fit in. Sixteen.
#2 - Defense. Innocent, unlucky, kind, skinny. Sixteen. 
#7 - Striker. Too cool for school. Sarcastic, “fuck”, thick eyeliner. Almost seventeen. 
#14 - Midfield. #7’s insecure sidekick. Just switched to contacts. Sixteen. 
#8 - Defense. Plays dumber than she is. Sixteen. 
#00 - Goalie. Intense performance anxiety, perfectionist, high achiever. Seventeen. 
SOCCER MOM
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting An indoor soccer field somewhere in Suburban America. Winter. Saturdays.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

“A delightful meditation on society, sex, and soccer.” – The Village Voice

CRITIC'S PICK! “The scary, exhilarating brightness of raw adolescence emanates from every scene of this uncannily assured first play by Sarah DeLappe.” – The New York Times, Read More 

“DeLappe has created an ensemble of distinct female characters without leaning on romantic partners or traditional feminine tropes to define them.” – Theatremania, Read More 

“DeLappe's exquisitely orchestrated cross talk and overlapping banter, dense with profanity and jokes, is quite musical.” – Time Out NY, Read More 

“The Wolves is a delightful meditation on society, sex, and soccer... DeLappe's dialogue is hilarious and idiosyncratic, moving swiftly from gross-out humor to pain... She offers us ninety minutes in a smart, sympathetic, female world. It's a patch of Astroturf I would gladly set foot on again.” – The Village Voice, Read More 

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    The Playwrights Realm trailer for The Wolves

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    A scene from The Wolves

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  • The Wolves

    Image: 2016 Playwrights Realm Production (Daniel Velasquez)

  • The Wolves

    Image: 2016 Playwrights Realm Production (Daniel Velasquez)

  • The Wolves

    Image: 2016 Playwrights Realm Production (Daniel Velasquez)

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Sarah DeLappe

Sarah DeLappe
Sarah DeLappe’s play The Wolves (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Lortel, Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright; Relentless Award, Sky Cooper New American Play Prize; Susan Smith Blackburn and Yale Prize finalist) premiered at The Playwrights Realm, follo ...
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