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Surviving against the sharp white (tennis) background: black women's presence and absence in Terrence NcNally's Deuce and Claudia Rankine's Citizen / Leticia L. Ridley -- Dribbling against the law: the performance of basketball, race and resistance / Danielle A. D. Howard -- Football plays and racial capitalism / Stefanie A. Jones -- Sport , space and gender: embodying alternate girlhoods with The wolves / Kim Solga -- Feminism on the field: Tina Satter's sports plays / Jessica Del Vecchio -- The believability of basketball: the multiple bodies of the female performer in The tall girls / Kelsey Blair -- Staging the boxing ring as heterotopia in Marco Ramirez's The royale / P. Solomon Lennox -- Bruce Lee's dancing fight: David Henry Hwang's Kung fu on stage / Zachary Price -- Between power bombs and death drops: interpellation and identity in The elaborate entrance of Chad Deity and queer indie wrestling / Kalle Westerling -- The theatricality of the locker room or staging the naked jock / Sean Metzger -- Cheering ain't for show, y'all: cheerleaders, performative uniforms and theatre affect / Michelle Liu Carriger

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

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