{"id":396,"date":"2024-12-17T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policies.pstcc.edu\/?p=396"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:16:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:16:32","slug":"pellissippi-state-theatre-partners-with-river-rail-for-all-female-play-about-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policies.pstcc.edu\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Pellissippi State Theatre partners with River & Rail for all-female play about soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An all-female cast carries “The Wolves,” a play about high school soccer players. Pellissippi State has partnered with the River & Rail Theatre Company for this production at Old City Performing Arts Center Dec. 2-18.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An entirely female cast carries Pellissippi State\u2019s fall Theatre production \u2013 a joint venture with Knoxville\u2019s River & Rail Theatre Company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Wolves\u201d by Sarah DeLappe, a play about teenage girls who have been playing competitive soccer together since they were children, will run Dec. 2-18 at Old City Performing Arts Center, 111 State Street. Tickets are now on sale here<\/strong><\/a> for 11 performances, with prices ranging from $4 for nonprofits that bring 10 or more students to $40 for premium seats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A student preview will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, with tickets priced at $7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While \u201cThe Wolves\u201d is about nine soccer players and each scene in the 90-minute production represents one week in the team\u2019s soccer season, the play is about much more, said Associate Professor Grechen Wingerter,<\/strong> who is directing the play for Pellissippi State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really a play about what it means to be a young woman in America \u2013 whether you are an athlete, an ace student or a girl trying to hold onto her childhood,\u201d Wingerter said. \u201c\u2019The Wolves is about all the pressure put on kids, especially girls and young women, to do all those things or to not do all those things. You aren\u2019t supposed to challenge the status quo. You\u2019re supposed to fall in line.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cdream cast\u201d is a mix of former and current Pellissippi State Theatre students as well as University of Tennessee students and professional actors, Wingerter noted, and other Pellissippi State students are serving behind the scenes as assistant director, assistant stage manager and more. Professor Claude Hardy<\/strong> is set designer and tech director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The timing is perfect, Wingerter added, as the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022\u2122 is being played through Dec. 18, but that wasn\u2019t her reason for selecting this show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Promotional<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201c’The Wolves’\u201d has been on my list ever since I read it because it\u2019s so well written,\u201d Wingerter said, noting she was scheduled to direct the play in fall 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic hit. \u201cIt spoke to me because I was on my high school\u2019s first girls\u2019 soccer team, in 1986, and the play brings together the two things that gave me a sense of belonging in high school: theatre and soccer. I\u2019d love to see this play get soccer people into theatre and theatre people into soccer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cast has been learning soccer drills and ball handling, as they will be acting while simultaneously \u201cwarming up\u201d for the fictional team\u2019s games in each scene. The play will not show games, but instead focuses on the interaction between the girls before and in between games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe team is only as strong as the individuals, but what happens when the balance is thrown off, when life intervenes, when someone new comes in and challenges those roles?\u201d said Wingerter, who is dedicating the show to her high school soccer coach, Howard LaBrant, <\/strong>who passed away Oct. 17. \u201cThese girls have played together for so long that they know each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses, how to poke the bear, how to support each other. They are not the same as they were when they were 6. It\u2019s a coming-of-age tale as they learn how to both be a team and maintain their individuality.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wingerter recommends the play for middle school-aged children and older, as there is some strong language as well as discussion of adult themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

River & Rail is a professional nonprofit theatre bringing together diverse communities in Knoxville to experience, develop and discuss world-class theatre arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cast:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#11 – Hannah Sloas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#25 – Gracie Belt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#13 – Catherine Blevins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#46 – Celeste Pelletier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

# 2- Erin Gillum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

# 7 – Sidney Scarlett<\/p>\n\n\n\n

# 14 – Linzy Monks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

# 8 – Maddie Trout<\/p>\n\n\n\n

# 00 – Emily Helton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soccer Mom – Amber Crane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understudies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mackenzie Jordan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo Bannow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Director:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie Campbell-Dollar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage Manager:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jess Klus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Stage Managers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel McRary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo Bannow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Technical Director:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierce Torano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light board Operator:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehki Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound board\/Projections Operator:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabella Ellis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decking\/Running Crew:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Leslie, Jordan Goskowicz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Costume Crew:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lux Boone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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