Two teams - LAVA and OBSIDIAN battle for ultimate SPORTS glory! Are our knees past their prime? YES. Are we good at SPORTS? YES AND NO AND ALSO KINDA. So why are we playing sports? Because now we’re ADULTS and there’s questions we can only answer in the SWEAT-POURING, HEART-POUNDING HEAT OF COMPETITION that we sure as hell couldn’t answer in middle school gym class.
We take the field to FIND OUT–what’s the line between HEALTHY and UNHEALTHY competition? What MYTHIC VERSIONS of ourselves are awakened in the whole-body pursuit of victory?
So will YOU be there to root on your team and guide them to glory? HELL FREAKIN YEAH.
And listen--is your relationship with sports kinda complicated? OURS TOO. Some of us were going to be headed for the OLYMPICS but it SUCKED THE JOY OUT OF COMPETING. Some of us went to college to play volleyball and then tore our Achilles and found THEATER. Some of us avoided sports as much as we could because of TOXIC MASCULINITY. As queer people, people with bodies past peak athletic performance, and artists, what belonging can we find as we collectively DUNK ON OUR DEMONS?
SO DON’T MISS this one-time-only professionally performed, athletically amateur, everything-on-the-line SPORTS EXTRAVAGANZA.
SPORTS! Schedule:
Tailgate 3:00-5pm FREE queer pre-show tailgate event and cornhole tournament hosted by partner OutLoud Sports.
Show 5-7pm SPORTS! Performance
Movie 7:30-9:30pm sports film screening hosted by cinéSPEAK, free with your SPORTS! ticket or $5-10 walk-up for the screening only.
Choose Your View:
Nosebleeds - $25 Student and industry ticket. Comes with a general admission seat in the top seating area.
Sweet Spot - $35 Standard rate ticket. Comes with a general admission seat in the middle seating area.
Courtside $55 - Comes with a courtside seat, 1 piece of sick team swag, 1 snack.
VIP Box $200 - VIP Box, 2 pieces of team sick team swag, unlimited concessions.
3701 Filbert St
General Admission: $35 (PWYW)
Play hard. Work together. Get free. That’s the goal of Obvious Agency, a Philadelphia-based cooperative that braids together participatory performance, democratic workplace practices, and arts worker organizing. We design systems that give our audiences, who we call “players”, real agency in what unfolds. Drawing from Theatre of the Oppressed, tabletop roleplaying games, and group process facilitation, our work is grounded in anti-capitalist, liberatory, and democratic frameworks.
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Adult Language
Audience Interaction
Expect this to be like watching a sports game, with all the intense physicality and risk that comes with those events. SPORTS! is largely improvised, and may include moments of light sexual content, adult language, discussions of injury, queerness, transness, and mental health.
There is audience interaction built into sports of varying types, but audience members are always able to opt out.
This event does not require masks to be worn