The Wolves
Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 10f
The Wolves
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Cast Size
10fDuration
90 minutesSubgenre
Romantic ComedyAccolades
From Off-BroadwayTarget Audience
- Adult
- Teen (Age 14 - 18)
Additional Info
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.
Accolades
FINALIST! 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
WINNER! 2015 Relentless Award for Playwriting
Reviews
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
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
Scene Study and Classroom Reading: Plays for Colleges and Universities
by Becca Schlossberg
August 23, 2019
Videos
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The Playwrights Realm trailer for The Wolves
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A scene from The Wolves
Considerations
Performing Groups
- High School/Secondary
- College Theatre / Student
- Professional Theatre
- Shoestring Budget
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Cautions
- Strong Language
- Mild Adult Themes
License details
- Minimum Fee: $125 per performance
Production
Details
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Setting: An indoor soccer field somewhere in Suburban America. Winter. Saturdays.
- Additional Features: No intermission
- Features / Contains: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
Casting
10f#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
Cast Attributes
- All Female
- Ensemble cast
- Multicultural casting
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Authors
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, following an engagement with New York Stage and F ...
View full profileThe 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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