The play “The Wolves” became a finalist in 2017 for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This is Sara Delappe’s first play she has ever written, and this year Long Beach City College Performing Arts Center will be putting on an all-women cast for it.
This play centers around a high school soccer team that centers around nine teenage girls that have conversations and gossip during their pre-game soccer warm-ups each week on Saturday mornings. The set is in an indoor soccer facility set somewhere in suburban America.
In this story, the teenage girls go through a load of problems that help them discover their own personal identity while being a part of a team.
All the girls in “The Wolves” agreed that they really resonate with the play because the characters’ interactions with each other are so natural and fluid. “It was like watching myself,” Caroline Wolf said.
“There are not many roles out there for females to be just who they are, usually you have to be someone’s girlfriend or a sex object, but here we get to be athletes,” Tijera Giddens-Byers said.
Everyone has put in extensive hours for this performance and they are feeling pretty confident but nervous since it is a live event.
“It’s not very often that we get scripts that are an all-women cast, most plays are men lead cast and only sprinkled with one or two lead female roles,” Director Heather Milam said.
Overall the cast said it was pretty easy to memorize lines because of all the hours they had to put in. They felt repetition to be key in the process.
“All us girls are so different from each other, that doing this play together created a strong bond and friendship with us all, that we will take this with us in the future,” Kellie Harden said.
General admission is $15.00 but students, seniors, and staff with ID will receive a $5.00 discount and there will be free parking in lots E & F.
This performance will be running between May 19 – 22, Thursday – Saturday starting at 7:30 p.m., and two daytime performances at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at LBCC Auditorium.