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Sports plays / edited by Eero Laine and Broderick Chow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxon : Routledge, Abingdon, 2022.Description: 239p. : illISBN:
  • 9780367810016
  • 0367810018
  • 9781000429053
  • 1000429059
  • 9781000429039
  • 1000429032
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.028 23 LAI
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Contents:
Bad at sports : an introduction / Broderick Chow & Eero Laine Sports/race. Consequential acts : race, sports, and theatre / Harvey Young "Surviving against the sharp white [tennis] background" : black women's presence and absence in Terrence McNally's Deuce and Claudia Rankine's Citizen / Leticia L. Ridley Driblling against the law : the performance of basketball, race, and resistance / Danielle A.D. Howard Football plays and racial capitalism / Stefanie A. Jones Sex segregation. Sex, gender, and playing sport structures / Jennifer Doyle Sport, space, and gender : embodying aternate 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 Staged combat. Stage combats : expectations, illusions, and quiescent danger / Danielle Rosvally 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 Sports entertainment. Sportswear performs / Rachel Horn The theatricality of the locker room, or staging the naked jock / Sen Metzger 'Cheering ain't for show, y'all' : cheerleaders, performative uniforms, and theatre affect / Michelle Liu Carriger Afterword : theatre, sports, and value / Broderick Chow & Eero Laine
Summary: "Sport 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 volume's broad range of perspectives make it 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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Bad at sports : an introduction / Broderick Chow & Eero Laine
Sports/race. Consequential acts : race, sports, and theatre / Harvey Young
"Surviving against the sharp white [tennis] background" : black women's presence and absence in Terrence McNally's Deuce and Claudia Rankine's Citizen / Leticia L. Ridley
Driblling against the law : the performance of basketball, race, and resistance / Danielle A.D. Howard
Football plays and racial capitalism / Stefanie A. Jones
Sex segregation. Sex, gender, and playing sport structures / Jennifer Doyle
Sport, space, and gender : embodying aternate 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
Staged combat. Stage combats : expectations, illusions, and quiescent danger / Danielle Rosvally
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
Sports entertainment. Sportswear performs / Rachel Horn
The theatricality of the locker room, or staging the naked jock / Sen Metzger
'Cheering ain't for show, y'all' : cheerleaders, performative uniforms, and theatre affect / Michelle Liu Carriger
Afterword : theatre, sports, and value / Broderick Chow & Eero Laine

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"Sport 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 volume's broad range of perspectives make it 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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