The Alabama premiere of “The Wolves”

Story By: Keyanna James

The UM Theatre is opening its season with the off-Broadway play “The Wolves.” This performance will be the Alabama premiere of the play.

“The Wolves,” was one of the New York Times picks last year.

“The scary, exhilarating brightness of raw adolescence emanates from every scene of this uncannily assured first play by Sarah DeLappe, and at times your instinct is to shade your eyes,” The New York Times raves.

The play is based on ten soccer teammates communicating and having girl talk, as they discover themselves.

Marcus Lane directs the UM production. Lane saw the play in New York and said, “our kids need to be doing this material. I think in a lot of ways it’s their everyday life.”

“One thing I love about this is that they are ten distinctly different females, there is not an archetype among them. They are just genuine in their way,” Lane said.The Wolves” covers a lot of topics from feminine hygiene to politics but it’s the way they navigate the conversations and the way they handle conflict and their different views that makes the play relevant.

“The Wolves” covers a lot of topics from feminine hygiene to politics but it’s the way they navigate the conversations and the way they handle conflict and their different views that makes the play relevant.

“We say a lot of things sometimes, and we might not mean it in the meanest way possible but sometimes when people hear it, it’s destructive, and it’s hurtful, but once we’ve said it, it’s really hard to take back,” Lane said.ane said that young women will go through some things in the last scenes of the play because for somethings that are said and they have to come together as one team to move past it.

Lane said that young women will go through some things in the last scenes of the play because for somethings that are said and they have to come together as one team to move past it.

“One of the things I’m really pushing right now is ‘discussion.’ I think it will foster a lot of discussions because there are a lot of topics,” Lane said with hopes that the play with leave the audience with something to talk about.ane says he doesn’t want to tell viewers how to think, but he does want everyone to explore a few questions.ane says he doesn’t want to tell viewers how to think, but he does want everyone to explore a few questions.

Lane says he doesn’t want to tell viewers how to think, but he does want everyone to explore a few questions.hat would I do if I was in that situation or what can I do to not be in that situation?”

“What would I do if I was in that situation or what can I do to not be in that situation?”he UM Theatre will premiere “The Wolves” Oct. 5.

The UM Theatre will premiere “The Wolves” Oct. 5.

Lane invites everyone, “even if you don’t like everything in the show, I really think that if you sit here and you watch this, it’s going to affect you. It’s a show you’ll talk about, good or bad; you won’t be in the middle.”

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