Directed by Lindsay Gilmore Gaspari (SHE KILLS MONSTERS), this contemporary slice-of-life play (The Wolves) depicts a girls’ indoor soccer team and practice drills as they prepare for a succession of games. As they warm up and talk about life, the girls navigate the politics of their personal lives as well as the politics of the larger world, gossiping about things like war, menstrual products, genocide, sports, pop culture, and their relationships. Each team member struggles to negotiate her individuality while being a part of a group. They bond over a bag of orange slices and personal traumas. The team seems as if it may disband after the sudden death of one of the girls, but they manage to come together. In the end, the surviving team players prepare to play yet another game together – closer, stronger, wiser, and fiercer. “I wanted to see a portrait of teenage girls as human beings -
as complicated, nuanced, very idiosyncratic people who weren’t
just girlfriends or sex objects or manic pixie dream girls but who
were athletes and daughters and students and scholars and
people who were trying actively to figure out who they were in
this changing world around them ” —Sarah DeLappe
Event Venue
101 Hinkley Street, Benton Harbor, MI, United States, Michigan 49022
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