Slave Play
- Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 19th Century, Present Day
- 4M, 4F
- ISBN: 9781559369787
Nominated for a record twelve 2020 Tony Awards, Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender and sexuality in 21st Century America.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: 19th Century, Present Day
- Target Audience: Adult
- Cautions: Intense Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Professional Theatre
REVIEWS:
"The single most daring thing I’ve seen in theater in a long time."
Wesley Morris, The New York Times
"A funny, scalding walk along the boundary between black and white in America. A fascinating explosive-device of a play."
Peter Marks, The Washington Post
"There is nothing like Slave Play on Broadway. This is a radical moment in theater."
Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast
"Wisdom and timeliness ripple through Slave Play. This play is lit."
Soraya Nadia McDonald, The Undefeated
"A dazzling mix of satire and psychodrama."
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"Brash, smart and gleefully confrontational, this is the kind of show that starts arguments."
Adam Feldman, Time Out
"The most radical Broadway play in years. It is a shot across the bow of the Great White way."
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"A ballsy, often ferociously funny original work."
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
"Uncomfortably funny and gruesomely sexy. Should you laugh or keep quiet? You can’t know until the ordeal is done—and even then, the uncertainty may linger for days."
Winson Cunningham, The New Yorker
Written during Jeremy O. Harris's first year at Yale Drama School, Slave Play premiered off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop on November 19, 2018, in a production directed by Robert O'Hara. On October 6, 2019, Slave Play opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, again under the direction of O'Hara.
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s)
JIM – 35, a white man and inheritor of more than he knows how to handle.
PHILLIP – 30, a mulatto who still has to learn his color.
ALANA – 36, a white woman who wants more than the world sees fit to give her.
DUSTIN – 28, a white man but the lowest type of white -- dingy, an off-white.
GARY – 27, a dark, black man whose life has been lived with the full trauma of his color.
TEÁ – 26, a mulatto who is studied in her black and her white.
PATRICIA – 30, a light brown woman who knows many lives.
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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 21st-century America. |
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