Sports Plays

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Acceptable Gender Performance
American Lyric
Basketball Skills
Basketball Team
Boxing Ring
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Combat Sports
critical analysis of staged athletics
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Fantasy Football
feminist theatre
Field Hockey
Fleshy Body
Friday Night Lights
gendered embodiment
Grand Slam Title
Individuated Bodies
Jeet Kune
Kung Fu
Locker Room
Ma Ze
Narrative Resources
National Collegiate Athletics Association
performance studies
race and representation
Racial Capitalism
Sports Play
sports sociology
Stage Combat
Staged Violence
theatrical illusion
Vice Versa
Women Athletes
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367409425
  • Weight: 180g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.

Eero Laine is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Broderick Chow is Reader in Theatre, Performance and Sport and Deputy Dean (Interim) of the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London.