A play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America.
The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation - in the breeze, in the cotton fields... and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems.
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. It opened at New York Theatre Workshop in November 2018, and transferred to Broadway the following year.
'The single most daring thing I've seen in a theater in a long time'
* New York Times *'Uncomfortably funny and gruesomely sexy'
* New Yorker *'The most radical Broadway play in years'
* Chicago Tribune *'Slave Play offers some of the most stunning theatricality of the year'
* Washington Post *Jeremy O. Harris is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist and actor. He has been described as 'one of the most promising playwrights of his generation' (Vogue) and the 'theatre world's vital new voice' (GQ).