The theater of the present has been shaped by identity political debates, conflicts, and discourses for about a decade. In doing so, theater not only playfully addresses these discourses but also becomes a site for their negotiation and contestation. Questions regarding identity, community, and human differentiation affect both staging practices and aesthetics on stage, as well as structures and power relations behind the scenes, and not least, performances and theatrical representations on the numerous stages of politics, television, or sports.