A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, The Wolves takes us into the lives of a girls’ high school soccer team and the experiences they share during their weekly Saturday morning pre-game warmups. The topics range from idle gossip and dreams of playing collegiate soccer to global politics and personal experiences of puberty and the social pressures of youth. We watch the evolution of the team as they persevere through the season combating injuries, inter-squad tensions, and personal loss.
In the nomination comments by the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Committee, they wrote: “…a timely play about a girls’ high school soccer team that illuminates with the unmistakable ping of reality the way young selves are formed when innate character clashes with external challenges.”
