Actors frozen in soccer poses for PSU Theater's "The Wolves"

The Wolves

By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Christine Freije

 

Dates: May 23 - June 1, 2024

Location: Lincoln Hall Boiler Room Theater (LH 55)
1620 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97201

About This Production

PSU Theater presents Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe. A muscular contemporary coming-of-age story, The Wolves offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of a high school girls’ indoor soccer team. Set against the AstroTurf backdrop of the team’s winter season, the play explores thorny and shifting landscapes of identity, friendship, competition, and belonging. With a powerful blend of humor and vulnerability, the play asks its audience to encounter the ferocious reality of growing up.

"The Wolves" is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

Content Warning

The Wolves is a dark comedy about teenage girls reckoning with the confusion of coming of age in 2016. The characters discuss topics that include implied sexual assault, genocide, torture, detention of child migrants, disordered eating, body image, the death of a teenager, bereavement, bullying, racism, suicide, and abortion. The play also contains explicit language and the use of an ableist slur.

The production team is aware that content sensitivities vary from person to person, so please reach out if you have any questions.

Photo credit: Chad Lanning.

Parking Information: pdx.edu/transportation/hourly-visitor-parking

Questions: music@pdx.edu; (503) 725-3011


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Sport coach scene from Oh, the Humanity

Theater Arts at PSU

The PSU Theater Program provides pre-professional training that balances theory and practice within a liberal arts education. Through classroom study, studio/laboratory practice, field studies, or mainstage productions, students are encouraged to pursue educational excellence and collaboration.