The first mainstage production for the spring semester is The Wolves, directed by Courtney DiBello, assistant professor of stage management.
The Wolves will have performances at 8 p.m. Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 2-3 in Burg Theatre in Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.
The play, written by Sarah DeLappe, centers around a girls’ indoor soccer team as they come of age.
Shelby Parker, theater and performance freshman, plays “Soccer Mom.” She said the play has deeper themes that go beyond soccer.
“The Wolves is basically about being young in suburban America and being a woman in suburban America and everything that comes with that,” Parker said.
DiBello also said the play is about more than soccer.
“Folks will try and sum this play up as a play about an indoor soccer team, but it’s not about soccer,” DiBello said. “It’s about women on the cusp of finding who they are. There are complicating factors about defining themselves as women. They are having to learn not only how to support each other, but how to support themselves. They’re not supported by the community, and they know that, but it also becomes more and more obvious to them that the lack of community support means that they have to find a way within themselves to do what needs to be done.”
Kaiden Maines, acting junior, plays “#13.” She said the show’s soccer component has made the rehearsal process unique.
“It’s been unlike any other show that I’ve done here at OCU because its a very physically demanding show,” Maines said. “As a soccer team, we have to be able to play soccer and do warm-ups and drills, and so we’ve been learning some of that.”
The play features an all-female cast.
Maines said working with the other women has been a great experience.
“When I was cast in The Wolves, I got really excited because some really special things happen when you get a group of strong women together with a common goal and you can create magic,” Maines said. “These are the greatest women, so being able to be on a team both in the show and in real life is wonderful, and I’m so grateful.”
Tickets can be purchased in advance at okcu.edu/main/tickets or through the ticket office in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Center.
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