Each scene depicts the nine teenage girls who make up the Wolves, a high school soccer team, conversing while they warm up before their game each week.
These spin-offs include global politics, social gossip about each other and unseen characters, their bodies, their coach's obvious hangovers, their desire to play soccer in college, and speculations about the new girl, #46, who is homeschooled and new to the area.
As they rally together, Soccer Mom suddenly approaches them, giving them a delirious speech about her late daughter and how the team have banded together in spite of everything, leaving everyone speechless.
[1] The play was originally produced Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street by The Playwrights Realm in association with New York Stage & Film and Vassar's Powerhouse Theatre season.
The play re-opened at The Duke on November 29, 2016 and closed on December 29, 2016 with additional support from commercial producers Scott Rudin and Eli Bush.
[3] The Wolves received the American Playwriting Foundation's inaugural Relentless Award in 2015,[4][5] and was a New York Times Critic's Pick.
The committee wrote: "For 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.