ABSTRACT
Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports.
The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and cultural issues and debates.
This broad range of perspectives make the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Sports/Race|51 pages
Consequential Acts
chapter 1|15 pages
“Surviving against the sharp white [tennis] background”
part Sex Segregation|50 pages
Sex, Gender, and Playing Sport Structures
chapter 6|16 pages
The Believability of Basketball
part Staged Combats|54 pages
Stage Combats
chapter 9|19 pages
Between Power Bombs and Death Drops
part Sports Equipment|38 pages
Sportswear Performs