the wolf you feed

by Darcy Parker Bruce

Max, recently separated, has just moved into the rundown Shady Pines motel at the edge of a national park. Outside, a pack of wolves is wondering if she wants to hang out. Inside, everything she used to know is becoming something other-than. A toothbrush becomes a handful of chives, a bottle of shampoo is an owl that refuses to leave the shower, and a stack of papers that demand a signature stubbornly remain...

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Lloyd Collins: the wolf you feed by Darcy Parker Bruce

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the wolf you feed is surreal, wonderful, visceral, agonising, hilarious, punk rock gutpunch radness. The play grabbed me immediately and with every word brought me further in. Run!

the wolf you feed is surreal, wonderful, visceral, agonising, hilarious, punk rock gutpunch radness. The play grabbed me immediately and with every word brought me further in. Run!

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Eric Roberts: the wolf you feed by Darcy Parker Bruce

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The play establishes precise physical and emotional changes depicted through the growing forest in the motel and the changes in costume pieces for the lead. Excellent adaption of Where the Wild Things are and the old Two Wolves myths with contemporary topics of relationships, deforestation, and cultural norms.

The play establishes precise physical and emotional changes depicted through the growing forest in the motel and the changes in costume pieces for the lead. Excellent adaption of Where the Wild Things are and the old Two Wolves myths with contemporary topics of relationships, deforestation, and cultural norms.

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Cheryl Bear: the wolf you feed by Darcy Parker Bruce

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A magical meet of nature and self that takes us on a wild and beautiful ride!

A magical meet of nature and self that takes us on a wild and beautiful ride!

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The following roles can be doubled:
ARTHUR and CRACKER JACK
BENJI and RIFFRAF
LISA and JET
BRYAN and AJAX

Development History

Type Reading, Organization Theatre Prometheus, Year 2020
Type Workshop, Organization Theatre Prometheus, Year 2020
Type Reading, Organization The Bechdel Group, Year 2019

Production History

Type Professional, The VORTEX, Year 2026
Type Professional, Organization Giant Wolf Theatre, Year 2024
Type Professional, Organization Theatre Prometheus, Year 2020

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

fable/folktale

Subject Matter Keywords

wolves,

queer,

dance

Length

60-90 minutes

Cast Size

6—10

Age of Intended Audience

ages 18 and up

Narrative Attributes

Centers LGBTQ Characters

Supporting Materials

Published Script

https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/the-wolf-you-feed/

Reviews

Austin Chronicle

“
Bruce’s play examines the innately wolfish desires of Max (Rachel Hancock), a woman who takes shelter in the Shady Pines Motel after some mysterious event with her maybe, possibly, hopefully soon-to-be-ex-husband. But before long, the motel’s liminal space on the edge of the woods blurs reality and fable. The wolves appear at the door. Max has to examine her own desires as natural instincts and the natural world gradually encroach on her story, and on the stage itself.
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Broadway World

“
Darcy Parker Bruce’s the wolf you feed (the playwright stylizes the title without capital letters) howls into The Vortex Theatre for its American debut and what a gift it is. In the hands of Bottle Alley founder Chris Fontanes and the Vortex team, this production becomes a singular theatrical experience, one we are invited to sink our teeth into completely.
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