{"id":20125,"date":"2023-06-08T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=20125"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:17:30","slug":"westerns-theatre-department-presents-the-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/westerns-theatre-department-presents-the-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Western’s Theatre Department Presents “The Wolves”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by: Gretchen Sims<\/span><\/p>\n

Western\u2019s Theatre Department debuted \u201cThe Wolves\u201d on May 31 which was performed consecutively for the following three days. Written by Sarah DeLappe and directed by Raissa Fleming, the opening night performance was a smashing success that captivated audiences with the drama and theatrics of a high school soccer team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cast of Western students included Mere Butler as Soccer Mom, Katie Newbury as No. 25, Lexy Bolsinger as No. 11, Lucy Garcia as No. 8, Cody Reece as No. 7, Maddie Blanchard as No. 14, Savannah King as No. 13, Mariam Anderson-Taha as No. 2, Loki Cockrill as No. 00 and Jeneba Diane King as No. 46.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This production was phenomenal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I grew up playing soccer and have a lot of experience playing on teams. Not only have I been in the position of the new girl \u2014 No. 46 \u2014 but I have also been on a team that was together since kindergarten. The accuracy of the team and their interactions was on point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fleming noted that one of the most impressive things about Delappe\u2019s play was its ability to \u201ccapture the nuances of teenage girls\u2019 dialog. The sometimes-lyrical lifts and falls in dialog.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of the characters not only portrays \u2014 with seamless accuracy \u2014 the perils of being a teenager, but they each do it in their own unique way. Additionally, each one of these individuals perfectly fits into the team as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The audience was completely hooked and enthralled with all of the typical teenage drama presented by the team, which made it all that more devastating when one of them was tragically taken before her time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The process of dealing with grief is a difficult one and one that all of us will experience in our lifetimes. No matter how young or old, any member of the audience could sympathize with the grief-stricken team as they struggled to pick themselves up after the loss of their teammate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Congratulations to the cast of \u201cThe Wolves.\u201d Be sure to check out the Theatre Department\u2019s upcoming performances in Fall 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at howlentertainment@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":20126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}