Slave Play
by Jeremy O Harris

Name: Slave Play
Brand: Jeremy O Harris
SKU: 9781559369787
Rating: 4.5 (2259 reviews)

Slave Play Book Cover — Slave Play Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins American Black History Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama League Award Lucille Lortel Award Tony Award

Nominee: A record TWELVE 2020 Tony Awards, including Best Play! Nominee: 2020 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee: 2020 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding Broadway Production Nominee: 2019 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play

Synopsis

“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.

Themes Sex Therapy

Press Reviews

"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

"Slave Play is the single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time."
— Wesley Morris, The New York Times

"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

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Jim 35, a white man and inheritor of more than he knows how to handle.	male	—	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.	male	—	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.	female	—	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.	—	—	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.	male	—	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.	female	—	26, a mulatto who is studied in her black and her white.
Patricia 30, a light brown woman who knows many lives.	female	—	30, a light brown woman who knows many lives.
Kaneisha 28, a dark, black woman unafraid of what she knows she wants.	female	—	28, a dark, black woman unafraid of what she knows she wants.