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Southwest Florida premiere of The Wolves opens July 11th at The Laboratory Theater of Florida.
FORT MYERS, FL (June 15, 2019) – The Times Critics Pick and Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe is being offered as a limited engagement of five performances by The Laboratory Theater of Florida Arts Education program, July 11th – 14th.
The Wolves is set in an indoor soccer facility. Each scene depicts the nine teenage girls who make up the soccer team The Wolves as they are warming up before their weekly games.
 
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girl’s indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
 
“The scary, exhilarating brightness of raw adolescence emanates from every scene of this uncannily assured first play by Sarah DeLappe.” – The New York Times
 
Director Madelaine Hayes says, “There’s something about being an adult and consuming media that’s geared toward teens; especially teen girls. There’s no way, out of the presence of adults, that kids swear that much, know so much about mature themes and have so many intelligent opinions about the world around them. Looking from the outside, we tend to think, ‘do they really talk like that?’  They do. And they crave to make art like that, too. There will be ten talented girls who talk like this, think like this, ready to make art like this. It’s a demanding, in-demand script that I’m looking forward to tackling with an enthusiastic cast and crew.”
 
This summer, The Laboratory Theater of Florida is holding an immersive theatrical summer camp for teens that covers not only singing, acting and choreography, but also covers the basics of set design and build, lighting design and implementation, sound, stage management, costume planning and creation, and prop sourcing and creation. The arts education camp is three weeks starting June 24th and culminating in five performances of The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe.
 
Performance dates are as follows:
July 11, 12, 13 at 8 pm
July 13, 14 at 2 pm
Tickets are available to purchase on Brownpapertickets.com or by calling the box office at 239-218-0481. For additional savings, guests may purchase a 2018-2019 Season Pass.
ABOUT THE LABORATORY THEATER OF FLORIDA
The Laboratory Theater of Florida, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is dedicated to the promotion of the performing arts, through live performance, education, community outreach, experimentation, and the development of ensemble work. The company features ensemble productions, produces classic works, takes artistic risks, which both feature and challenge local performers. For more information visit www.LaboratoryTheaterFlorida.com or the physical location at 1634 Woodford Avenue, in the Fort Myers River District.

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