Slave Play

by Jeremy O. Harris

Overview

“The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” — Wesley Morris, New York Times

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. Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559369787
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Pages:	120
Sales rank:	82,307
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy O. Harris, “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation,” (Vogue) is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and actor. His plays include Slave Play; “Daddy”; Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1; and “WATER SPORTS”; or insignificant white boys. Jeremy co-wrote A24’s film Zola with director Janicza Bravo. Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama’s MFA Playwriting Program.

Editorial Reviews

"Slave Play is funny, probing and, at times, disturbingly sexy...it asks a lot of its spectators, and has a lot to give in return."

Time Out New York - Adam Feldman

"Supercharged, fearsome, and terribly funny."

New York - Sara Holdren

"Jeremy O. Harris is the theater world's vital new voice."

GQ - Raven Smith

"This wildly imaginative work asserts itself with a daringness rarely seen on our stages these days."

Hollywood Reporter

"Slave Play offers some of the most stunning theatricality of the year."

Washington Post - Peter Marks

"Uncomfortably funny and gruesomely sexy."

New Yorker - Vinson Cunningham

"[A] willfully provocative, gaudily transgressive and altogether staggering new play."

New York Times

"This is a demanding play, and one of the things that it demands is the audience's discomfort. But that discomfort is productive — and in the end, it brings its own satisfactions. It creates a space in which the messiness and rawness of race and power and fantasy and trauma can unspool into a chaotic churn of impressions."

Vox

"The most radical Broadway play in years. A shot across the bow of the Great White Way."

Chicago Tribune - Chris Jones

"There's delicious danger in truly not knowing what might happen next, and Slave Play is all about that collision between what’s terrifying and what’s tantalizing."

New York Magazine

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