Fair Play Puts a Personal Spin on Debates Surrounding Gender and Sports

Fair Play Puts a Personal Spin on Debates Surrounding Gender and Sports

These days, gender in sports has become such potent fuel for the interminable culture wars that it’s impossible to escape the hundreds of headlines litigating questions of womanhood and how to categorize women’s bodies. Yet 1st Stage’s Fair Play, written by British playwright Ella Road and directed by Deidra LaWan Starnes, starts by sidestepping the big headlines and focusing instead on a raw, bodily moment: a collision. Two girls crashing into …