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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.
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.
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