'What if I said I am not what you think you see,' says Mitchell Winter, an actor, narrator, and puppeteer who takes on the persona of both a six-year-old adopted boy and a lone wolf in Hansol Jung's take-no-prisoners parenting drama 'Wolf Play.'
adopted boy and a lone wolf in Hansol Jung’s take-no-prisoners parenting drama “Wolf Play,” which was produced Off-Broadway last year by Soho Rep and Ma-Yi Theater Company and is now receiving an encore run at MCC Theater in midtown.
The play was inspired by a 2013 Reuters investigation of an underground online “child exchange” in which parents who had adopted children from overseas and no longer wanted the children transfer custody of the children to replacement caretakers using ads on Internet message boards, without any governmental supervision.
It begins with Peter , the overwhelmed father of an adopted six-year-old Korean boy, dropping off his son in another state to a new set of parents, including Robin , who is eager to be a mother, and Ash , a non-binary aspiring boxer who finds the exchange to be extremely shady and proceeds to punch out Peter. Also on hand is Robin’s brother Ryan , who is also Ash’s professional trainer.
Similar to the recent drama “Slave Play,” the title “Wolf Play” refers to how the child is “playing” the role of a wolf – or is the wolf playing a child? Throughout, Winter operates a life-size puppet , narrates and comments to the audience even growls. Staged along a runway-like stage, with the audience seated along opposite sides, Dustin Wills’ expressly theatrical and shape-shifting production conjures a world through the boy’s point of view, with overlapping activities and conversations, set pieces flying up on down via pulleys and sandbags, cereal boxes full of confetti, shadow play, live sound effects and even a boxing ring.
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