The Team

While the narrative and the dialogue of the play are both propelled by conversations between individuals, and while many of its themes are dramatized in the personal journeys of transformation of individual players, the team of which all these individuals are a part (The Wolves) is the play’s central character. To begin with, most of the physical action of the play is defined by how the team functions as a unit – specifically, as the players do their warmup. That warmup, as the author suggests in her “Introductory Information” is conducted with “military precision” (9); given that military training is all about subsuming individual identity to the service of the unit, and/or the greater good. Yes the characters have conversations with each other and interact in ways, or for reasons, that exist outside the life of the team; it is essential to keep in mind that these...