{"id":26265,"date":"2024-02-20T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=26265"},"modified":"2024-02-20T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:24:24","slug":"marshall-school-of-theatre-and-dance-to-present-the-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/marshall-school-of-theatre-and-dance-to-present-the-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall School of Theatre and Dance to present \u2018The Wolves\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Marshall University \u00a0School of Theatre and Dance will present \u201cThe Wolves,\u201d a play by Sarah DeLappe, <\/span>at 7:30 p.m. nightly Feb. 21-24 in the Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wolves\u201d is an inside look at the lives of nine girls playing for an indoor soccer team and fighting their way through adolescence.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Directed by Leah Turley, the cast includes\u202fNikki Riniti, Eliza Aulick,\u202fHarper Aulick, Jaden Babbitt, Roza Beller, Amelya Bostic, Sierra Lutz, Reilly McClain, Samantha Phalen, and Kristen Scites.\u202f Assisting behind the scenes will be Marshall student Rory Johnson, working as stage manager, with help from Marshall theatre faculty members Mike Murphy (scene design), Olivia Trees (costume design), and Lang Reynolds (light design).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018The Wolves\u2019 is set to a backdrop of soccer\u2014 warmups, specifically,\u201d said Jack Cirillo, director of the School of Theatre and Dance. \u201cThe play is structured around the team\u2019s preparation \u2013 the real drama of their lives happens off stage, reported to us during these training sessions. It is a neat concept. Yet almost every scene shows the team in repetitive warmup movements, stretching or jogging, so that the strength of the drama almost entirely depends on their repartee and debate.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe get to know these young ladies intimately, and like any great piece of theatre, we empathize and care about them,\u201d Cirillo said.\u202f\u201cThe playwright has done a masterful job in taking us on a journey with these adolescent women.\u202fIf we accept the notion that the theatre should in some way provoke an empathetic response, then this piece certainly succeeds in that idea.\u201d\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The show is also an opportunity for Marshall students \u201cto e<\/span>xplore athleticism on stage while connecting to the emotional arch of teenage girls,\u201d said Turley, assistant professor of Theatre Performance who is directing the show. That includes not only warmups but passing drills and team drills performed on stage, she said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot only are they charged with controlling the ball, but they’re also expected to continue their character arch, remember their lines, move and set their props, and listen and respond to the other actors, in real-time, no stopping, no do-overs,\u201d Turley said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAdditionally, DeLappe’s play is almost a meditation on the plight of young women: they possess so much power and intelligence, but there’s nowhere for them to test their limits, so they test them with each other, socially,\u201d she added. \u201cThe play also says a lot<\/span> about how we regard the emotions and desires of teenage girls, often with disdain and disgust. It’s an honest portrayal of how teenage girls behave when their parents aren’t around.\u201d\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets are free for Marshall students with a valid Marshall ID; $15 for senior citizens and Marshall employees; and $22 for general admission. They can be purchased at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center box office or by calling 3034-696-ARTS.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about Marshall\u2019s School of Theatre and Dance, visit <\/span>www.marshall.edu\/theatre<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Marshall University \u00a0School of Theatre and Dance will present \u201cThe Wolves,\u201d a play by Sarah DeLappe, at 7:30 p.m. nightly Feb. 21-24 in the Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. \u00a0 \u201cThe Wolves\u201d is an inside look at the lives of nine girls playing for an indoor soccer team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cam","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26268,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26265\/revisions\/26268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}