Skip to main content
THE WOLVES

Sarah DeLappe’s award winning play The Wolves doesn’t just tell about teamwork—it shows it!  
Studio Theatre’s production of The Wolves is a great team of actresses working together with a great director and creative team and coming up a winner.
The Wolves are a girls’ soccer team who have an undefeated record.  #2 (Merissa Czyz),  #25 (Chrissy Rose), #11( Lindsley Howard),  #13 (Sarah Turner), #36 (Jane Bernhard), #7 (Katie Kleiger), # 14 (Maryn Shaw), #8 (Shanta Parasuraman), and #00 (Gabby Beans)  stretch and squat and banter about everything they can think of—and a lot of time like they aren’t thinking at all. 
They throw up, bleed, get injuries.  They are smart, sassy, funny, angry, and compassionate.  Fearful and brave, they are trying to find their own strengths and sensibilities.  
Anne Bowles is the soccer mom whose brief appearance signals their entry into the bigger life game that is outside of Saturday soccer practice.
Studio’s Director of Design Deb Booth has set them in an indoor soccer turf  so that audience members can feel just like they are watching a game.
Paul T  Toben for lighting design, Sarah Cubbage for costumes, and Mikhail Fiksel for sound—they make it real.
Director Marti Lyons,  Movement Coach Stephanie Paul and  Soccer Consultant Manya J Makoski are at their winning best at keeping the words and the motions going as fast and as exciting as the sport.  
 By the way, if you wonder how authentic this play,  Makoski is a retired professional soccer player whose professional career as midfielder spanned nine years with the National Women’s Soccer League. As a teenager, she was part of the 2002 U-19 World Cup Team that won the  FIFA World Championship in Alberta, Canada. She currently serves on the coaching staff  of the University of Maryland’s women’s soccer team.

WANT TO KNOW MORE
Until  March 18, 2018 at
The Studio Theatre
1501 14th Street NW 
Tickets: 202.332.3300 
Website: studiotheatre.org
E-mail: info@studiotheatre.org



Popular posts from this blog

  Once is here again!   The Brooklyn Gallery Players reach into the treasure chest of great musicals to bring Once alive and on stage in Brooklyn (until to December 17, 2023). Director Mark Gallagher , and Music Directors David Fletcher and Brendon McCray have crafted a vibrant production, seamlessly integrating the 15 member cast in roles  as both actors and musicians. Set in Dublin, the  formula for the poignant love triangle  is simple. Patrick Newhart  plays Guy, an Irish musician who has given up  on love as he sings the award winning classic  Falling.  Newhart mastered the bombastic busking guitar style and performed each of his songs with intensity and passion Sophie Smith-Brody  is Girl,  a Czech woman  who will inspire him to try again both in  love and with music. Smith-Brody performed each of her disparate songs with aplomb,  from the opening classical piece to her plaintive solos – If You Want...
Read more
  Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando — sparkling wit and ageless wisdom —   at   Constellation Theatre — gone but not forgotten In Virginia Woolf’s Orlando A Biography ,  the eponymous hero undergoes many changes over the centuries— from roles in society and relationships to sex change.  Since the time travel gender bending work was published in 1928, this his/her story has continued to undergone adaptions to its original form, from analytical scholarly critiques to crowd pleasing  movies and stage plays.  Constellation Theatre Company continued  the tradition with its amazing presentation of Sarah Ruhl’s narrative play Orlando .    Five actors  take on dozens of roles as characters or in the  chorus to keep the story at its rapid pace,  condensing events spanning almost five centuries into 100 minutes.   Orlando (Mary Myers) is  ever the aristocrat whether as a page in the court of  Queen Elizabeth I (Alan Naylor)...
Read more
From EUGENE ONEGIN  to  DER ROSENKAVALIER  (Or Everything you want to know about love is at the MET OPERA) Great music and great literature meet on a great stage at the Met Opera’s production of Eugene Onegin on the big screen on April 25, 2017.  The words are Pushkin’s from his  Russian novel-poem.  The music is by Tchaikovsky  for what he termed “lyrical scenes.” Tchaikovsky’s music is forever embedded in our consciousness  with his fantasy ballets like  Nutcracker   and Swan Lake .   Pushkin’s work has provided the inspiration for dozens of musical works, including another famous Russian opera, Boris Godunov.     This team of Tchaikovsky and Pushkin is a sure thing but while there are many scholarly interpretations of Pushkin’s work, there is none that so gets it at its core as this opera. Using the very words from Pushkin’s poem,  Tchaikovsky built the opera through a series of powerful co...
Read more