The Wolves

July 2018

The Wolves

DeLappe, Sarah. The Wolves. 2016. Samuel French

The Wolves is a groundbreaking play that captures the essence of teenage conversation when there are no adults around. It is challenging, fascinating and I would love to see it staged at some point. It is written so that several conversations happen at the same time, and really juxtaposes the rigid warm ups of a highly competitive soccer team with the conversations that they all have with one another. 14-16 year old girls navigating social justice, sex, and college scouts all while trying to play soccer as a team that has been together for years. The success of The Wolves comes from the characterization, the playwright seemed to have a very clear understanding of the different types of girls that might be on a soccer team, and seemed to have a lot of fun throwing them all together, it happened so naturally that the play seems more like a window into the lives of real teenage girls than it does a scripted drama.