Slave Play
11 Jul 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
Slave Play
Paperback
£10.99£8.79
Noel Coward Theatre, West End
From Sat 29 Jun 2024 to Sat 21 Sep 2024
Please note: due to territorial rights restrictions, we are only able to accept orders for Slave Play for delivery to customers located in the UK and Ireland.
At the MacGregor Plantation the Old South is alive and well. The heat in the air, the cotton fields – and the power of the whip. Yet nothing is quite as it appears... or maybe it is.
Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender and sexuality in twenty-first-century America.
Iconic, controversial and groundbreaking, it opened at New York Theatre Workshop in 2018, transferred to Broadway the following year, and was nominated for twelve Tony Awards.
It received its British premiere at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End in 2024, directed by Robert O'Hara.
'How to explain Harris? He is like Tennessee Williams, if Williams had been Prince. Or Truman Capote, if Capote had been Paradise Garage. He is a firebrand writer with whipcrack humour. He has two brilliant plays under his belt, Slave Play and Daddy. He is such a queer hero of our times that the New York neighbourhood he lives in has become fleetingly famous. One of Jeremy O. Harris's plays coming to London is a major event' Evening Standard
'The single most daring thing I've seen in a theater in a long time'
New York Times'Prepare to be shocked... bold and scabrously witty... challenging in the best way... a vital presence in the West End.. Harris's ear for dialogue, and his ability to stoke tension and wrong-foot the audience are terrific... an elegant, essential provocation from a singular writer whose voice demands attention'
Evening Standard'Uncomfortably funny and gruesomely sexy'
New Yorker'Sensational... a sharp, intelligent, multi-layered satire... not an easy watch – but a necessary one'
Independent'The most radical Broadway play in years'
Chicago Tribune'Devastating... profoundly exposing and upsetting... Harris's writing is at once subtle and bludgeoning... a vital piece of theatre'
WhatsOnStage'Slave Play offers some of the most stunning theatricality of the year'
Washington Post'Brilliantly clever, grotesquely funny, extremely disturbing... Jeremy O. Harris is a provocateur with a stinging sense of humour, a laser-like mind and deeply serious intent... a fearlessly probing work that goes much further than flirting with the politically unsayable'
The Stage'Ebulliently messy, fiendishly clever, frequently maddening and gloriously different... it's dynamite'
Time Out'Theatre at its most provocative and powerful'
The Upcoming11 Jul 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
