Casting Call for Girls for "The Wolves" Stage Play
Girls wanted for “The Wolves” play. See details below. About the project: Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves is the debut of playwright Sarah DeLappe. Featuring an all-female cast (comprised of nine adolescents and one briefly-seen adult), The Wolves chronicles six Saturday mornings in the lives of a soccer team somewhere in suburban America as they prepare for their games. As the girls discuss everything from genocide to menstrual cycles to drugs to boys to literature to each other, they go from relative strangers identified only by their jersey number to comrades. In the course of six short weeks, the Wolves deal with love, loss, and identity in ways that real teenagers do. Additional info: Please prepare a short (60 second) contemporary monologue and be prepared to read a short scene. Callbacks: Friday December 12 from 1-4pm. Be prepared to move and stretch. Scenes will be given out at callbacks. The show runs from Thursday March 25th - Sunday April 5th Rehearsals will begin mid-January Rehearsals will (tentatively) be T, TH 3:30-6:00pm, Sat 11-1 Please see the attachment for details. If you are interested please apply.
10 roles
Midfield. Brainy, morbid, budding elitist, thoughtful. Seventeen. Curious about the world and grapples with questions of morality.
Defense, Captain. Classic (ex)coach’s daughter. Seventeen. Works to keep everyone in line, both physically and socially, while also making an attempt to strike out on her own with a new relationship.
Midfield. Stoner, older pot dealer brother, into her wackiness. Sixteen. Self-medicates with marijuana and attempts to understand the complexity of relationships.
Bench. New girl. Awkward, different, just wants to fit in. Sixteen. Struggles often unsuccessfully, to fit in, but eventually proves that she is a worthy teammate.
Defense. Innocent, unlucky, kind, skinny. Sixteen. More innocent than the other girls, has strong religious beliefs and an eating disorder.
Too cool for school. Sarcastic, “fuck”, thick eyeliner. Almost seventeen. Very cool, loses a bit of her cool factor when she gets injured and has to miss the last game in the season.
Midfield. #7’s insecure sidekick. Just switched to contacts. Sixteen. Tries to be as cool as her friend #7, but struggles with the pressure and growing up before she is quite ready.
Defense. Plays dumber than she is so people will like her. Sixteen.
Goalie. Intense performance anxiety, perfectionist, high achiever. Seventeen. Copes with intense anxiety which causes her to vomit before every game.
Only in the final scene. Monologue.
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