Table of Contents
Preface: A Bruce Lee Musical? (David Henry Hwang); Bad at Sports: An Introduction (Broderick Chow & Eero Laine); Sports/Race; Consequential Acts: Race, Sports, and Theatre (Harvey Young); 1. ‘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); 2. Dribbling Against the Law: The Performance of Basketball, Race, and Resistance (Danielle A.D. Howard); 3. Football Plays and Racial Capitalism (Stefanie A. Jones); Sex Segregation; Sex, Gender, and Playing Sport Structures (Jennifer Doyle); 4. Sport, Space, and Gender: Embodying Alternate Girlhoods in with The Wolves (Kim Solga); 5. Feminism on the Field: Tina Satter’s Sports Plays (Jessica Del Vecchio); 6. 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); 7. Staging the Boxing Ring as Heterotopia in Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (P. Solomon Lennox); 8. Bruce Lee’s Dancing Fight: David Henry Hwang’s Kung Fu on Stage (Zachary Price); 9. Between Power Bombs and Death Drops: Interpellation and Identity in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and Queer Indie Wrestling (Kalle Westerling); Sports Equipment; Sportswear Performs (Rachel Hann); 10. The Theatricality of the Locker Room, or Staging the Naked Jock (Sean Metzger); 11. ‘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); Bibliography; Index
