←Recommendations of Wolf Play

I saw this play at ACT in Seattle and also read the script a couple months ago. It was one of the best productions I saw last season and reading the script made it easy to see why. This play is incredibly tight, without a wasted second. The idea of expressing a child's complex feelings that they cannot yet articulate through the layered metaphors of wolf and puppet is brilliant. Each character is so clearly drawn through their different speech patterns, desires, and fears. Thank you for sharing this play with the world!

I chose to read Wolf Play for a play analysis assignment and loved every second of it. It does a tremendous job of pulling you into the characters' stories and feeling the emotion behind their words and actions. Also, the whole concept and execution of Wolf puppeteering Jeenu is genius. An incredible read.

I just had the wonderful fortune of seeing Wolf Play and I have never sought out a playwrights other work so fast. The world of Wolf Play is off putting but heartwarming, infuriating but hilarious. It’s inventive and clever and everything I love about modern theatre. Go see this show whenever you can, it will stay with you for a long time. Jung has a masterful hand that makes every tool, the puppet, the layered speech, the audience engagement so fresh and unique. Truly beautiful.

This play is so imaginative, funny, theatrical, intimate, vast, surprising, moving, devastating -- all at once. It's a play that really questions family: are they the people you choose to be in your life? What if that choice is taken away from you? One of my favorite writers tackling international adoption with so much heart and humor.

I loved this play: the characters, the child, the ingenuity of the writing. Heartbreaking and beautiful.

What a devastatingly beautiful story! I saw this play at The Gift Theatre in Chicago and it truly wrecked me.

An incredibly moving and beautifully told story! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this at Company One in Boston. Jung creates her own glorious theatrical world utilizing some creative conventions that, in the wrong hands, could be gimmicky. On the contrary, her use of a puppet to represent the child achieves a masterful storytelling sleight of hand--it makes it possible for us as an audience to witness the trauma he goes through without subjecting a child actor to it, while not losing any of the emotional potency of the character's arc. I hope this play has a long life!

WOLF PLAY by Hansol Jung is receiving a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Partnering NNPN Member Theaters are NEW JERSEY REPERTORY COMPANY (Long Branch, NJ), KITCHEN DOG THEATER (Dallas, TX), MILAGRO (Portland, OR), and HALCYON THEATRE (Chicago, IL)

I feel so grateful to have seen the world premiere of this work at Artists Rep in Portland. Astute, unflinching and yet humane and approachable, Jung's beautiful play dances on the edge between reality and magic, drawing us into deep layers of perspective, narrowly focusing the aperture, and then widening the lens, to take in the whole firmament. Not surprised to see theatres lining up to produce this bold, innovative and genuinely unique new play. Run, don't walk, to see it where you live.

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Hansol Jung and their play Wolf Play as a finalist for our 2017 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 55 finalists out of more than 1,300 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers responded to the deeply moving dissection of the meaning of family, as well as the innovative theatricality of both the structure and character of Wolf.