Summary

In the Preface, the author describes choosing to wear a sports bra while writing the play as a way in to one of her primary intentions – to explore the feeling and experience of being in the athletic body of a young woman. She then discusses how the play is not necessarily about her own personal experiences as a young woman, adding that “this play is not really about soccer” (9). She says that her choice of setting (an indoor soccer facility) is intended to suggest that its characters “exist, quite literally, in a bubble” of “American exceptionalism” (9). She goes on to suggest that at that particular stage when the stages of everyday life could not be any higher, they are desperate to understand themselves and the world around them but they can only see so far” (9). She describes thinking of the play as equivalent to...