Page & Stage: 1st Stage’s Book Club
In partnership with Bards Alley, 1st Stage is excited to bring
Page & Stage: a book club for every audience!
All Page & Stage book club meetings are free to attend. To purchase tickets for Fair Play, visit the show link here.
Next Meeting: Sunday, October 26 at 3:45pm
In conjunction with our upcoming production, Fair Play, Page & Stage will be reading
The Race To Be Myself: A Memoir by Caster Semenya.
The Race To Be Myself: A Memoir
By Caster Semenya
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
“Caster’s story isn’t just a tale of perseverance and poise, it’s a story that makes us all interrogate our humanity and the world we build with our actions every day. An essential read.” —Trevor Noah
World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and career, and her trailblazing battle to compete on her own terms.
Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya’s win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are.
Told with captivating speed and candor, The Race to Be Myself is the journey of Semenya’s years as an athlete in the public eye, and her life behind closed doors. From her rural beginnings running free in the dust, to crushing her opponents in record time on the track, to the accusations and falsehoods spread about her in the press, the legal trial she went through in order to compete, and the humiliation she has been forced to endure publicly and privately. This book is a searing testimony for anyone who has been forced to stop doing what they love.