The Great Leap, by Lauren Yee (San Francisco, CA)

The Great Leap, by Lauren Yee
San Francisco ACT

When a college basketball team from San Francisco is invited to China for an exhibition game in 1989, a smack-talking American coach prepares to take on his protégé—now grown and bent on crushing the Westerners. But after a public high school star from Chinatown joins the American team, his actions in Beijing become the accidental focus of attention, escalating the fractured history between the coaches.

Funny, urgent, and contemporary, this slam dunk of a sports drama from award-winning Bay Area playwright Lauren Yee explores cultural identity, global politics, and the collision of cultures and generations. Soaring through time and leaping across cultures from the hardball courts of San Francisco’s Chinatown to a Beijing on the brink of revolution, The Great Leapbuilds tension right up to the buzzer.