At first glance, it might seem like any group of teenage girls. While some are joking about tampons, others are arguing over the Khmer Rouge. So starts Sarah DeLappe’s award-winning debut play The Wolves, which she wrote in three weeks after being inspired at a New Museum exhibition of Middle Eastern art. What began as a conversation, typed up on her phone on the subway home, ended up as a 90-minute, award-winning play about the evolution of a nine-strong, high school football team as they warm up between games.

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