Sumo
by Lisa Sanaye Dring

Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling.

Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight.

Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn.

Expecting validation, dominance, and fame, and desperate to move up the ranks, he slams headlong into his fellow wrestlers.

With sponsorship money at stake, their bodies on the line, and their futures at risk, the wrestlers struggle to carve themselves — and one another — into the men they dream of being.

SUMO is a thrilling new play set in an elite and rarely explored world.