What is the importance of the bird trapped within the boundaries of the indoor soccer dome in The Wolves: A Play?

The bird trapped within the boundaries of the indoor soccer dome, and which is commented upon by 46, is a symbolic representation of how the young women on the team are, in various ways and in varying degrees, trapped by the life they are living. That life, as referenced above, is defined in part by their being in the author-described "bubble" of "American exceptionalism", but also in the "bubble" of life in suburbia - that is, in urban communities that tend, in both public perception and in actuality, to be separate from the everyday lives and struggles of the disadvantaged.