The world premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's 'Love All' at La Jolla Playhouse brings to the stage the story of tennis great and equality champion Billie Jean King in production starring Chilina Kennedy.
on divisive subjects, Smith departs from her usual practice of arranging verbatim testimony into dialectical collages. “Love All,” which is having its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in a production directed by Marc Bruni, offers a more straightforward dramatization of King’s story., Billie Jean picks up the game on public courts and vows that she will one day be No. 1 in the world. She makes an early splash at Wimbledon, knocking out No.
“A Man’s life of any worth is a continual allegory,” observed the poet John Keats. As someone who exemplifies this truth more completely than most, King throws into relief the male bias of the wording. “Love All” then travels back in time to when young Billie Jean Moffitt is being criticized for not wearing a skirt. Growing up in a blue-collar family in the 1950s, she was made to feel like an outsider in an elitist sport that was still the preserve of well-to-do white people in all-white outfits at exclusively white country clubs.
Not everyone will be fascinated by the shifting rules about amateurs and professionals and its impact on the economics of the game. The greed of contemporary sports has to be set aside to understand the civil rights issue at stake in King’s long campaign for equal prize money — a campaign still being waged today.
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