The Committee on Theater and Performance Studies is opening the 2023-2024 season with a professionally led production of Sarah DeLappe’s tour-de-force and 2017 Pulitzer finalist, The Wolves. The play follows a high school women’s soccer team through their pre-game warmups across a season, enduring the trials of young womanhood with raw and driven dialogue and free, expressive staging.
The Wolves
By Sarah DaLappe
Directed by Ericka Ratcliff
Performances | November 2 - 4, 2023
SYNOPSIS: Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
CASTING NEEDS: 10 Actors. Female-identifying or non-binary. All actors participate in physical warm-ups throughout the play. Please bring yourself to your taped audition. These are contemporary characters, so we want to see what you bring to the part. All actors will work with text and a high level of movement. No previous experience or knowledge of soccer required. Please prepare the MOM monologue or the selected scene as either #25 or #46 (if choosing the scene, please have a scene partner who can read the other part off camera) self-tape and submit to Devon de Mayo, ddemayo@uchicago.edu.
SIDES: The audition sides are: mom monologue pg158 to 159 "funny" and #25 and #46 on pg26 "um hey" to 28 "kick some hornet bootie"
SELF TAPE SUBMISSIONS DUE: Sunday, September 24 by 11:59pm.
In-person CALLBACKS: Monday, September 25 6pm-9pm location TBA
Not an actor? TAPS is looking for students who are interested in assisting these professionals and others in directing, set and lighting design, sound, costuming, movement, dramaturgy, and stage management.
If you have questions, please reach out to the Director of Performance Programs, Devon de Mayo, ddemayo@uchicago.edu