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Like A War Movie, But 'On A Planet Of Teenage Girls'

Sarah DeLappe's play The Wolves, which opens in New York on Monday, follows an elite soccer team of young women as it prepares for its own battles.
In <em>The Wolves, </em>characters are known only by their jersey numbers. Playwright Sarah DeLappe says she wanted to portray them "not as daughters, not as girlfriends, not as sexual objects, but as athletes."

When playwright Sarah DeLappe was growing up, she loved war movies. So she decided to write a play that was like a war movie – but about girls soccer.

at New York's Lincoln Center on Monday. As the lights come up, nine teenage girls

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