Slave Play
Slave Play - West End History , Info & More
Noel Coward Theatre
85-88 St Martin's Ln, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4AP, United Kingdom London
__IS LONDON READY FOR SLAVE PLAY?__
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.
The iconic, controversial, ground-breaking and most Tony Nominated play of all time comes to London. __Fisayo Akinade, James Cusati-Moyer, Kit Harington, Aaron Heffernan, Chalia La Tour, Annie McNamara, Irene Sofia Lucio__ and __Olivia Washington__ star in Jeremy O. Harris’s extraordinary play about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America. Robert O’Hara directs at the intimate Noël Coward Theatre for a strictly limited and unmissable season.
__Assisted Performances__
Audio Described - Saturday 17th August 2.30pm
Captioned - Saturday 3rd August 2.30pm
Slave Play - - West End Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Slave Play
Slave Play review: Jeremy O Harris’s sensational show is not an easy watch – but a necessary one
8 / 10
Harris’s play is full of a sharp satirical intelligence that makes the right words fall from the wrong mouths, and resists pat conclusions. It’s never an easy watch – and its Black Out nights feel like an important gesture to Black audiences who don’t want white discomfort to define their experience of it. But it is a necessary one, showing how old power structures linger, covered over by messy, fleshy protuberances of desire.
Jeremy O. Harris's controversy magnet play lands in London
4 / 10
Never mind the sex and nudity (the literal bollocks) - at its core Slave Play is too obsessed with conceptual naval gazing to the extent that it forgets that its characters are human beings. The vast majority of it is stuffed by a overwrought therapy session where the couples whine and whinge about their sex problems – suggested, by harpy-like therapists spouting meaningless therapy jingo, to stem from racial trauma that they must now exorcise.
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by Stephi Wild - August 2, 2024
An all new trailer has been released for the West End production of Slave Play. Check out the video here!
by Nicole Rosky - July 11, 2024
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, and directed by Robert O’Hara, has arrived in London! Let's see what the London critics are saying about the play...
by Alexander Cohen - July 10, 2024
For a play that wears controversy as a badge of honour the last thing I expected to feel was slightly bored
by Stephi Wild - June 11, 2024
Save up to 42% on tickets to Slave Play at the Noel Coward Theatre. Tickets are now available from £17.25.
by Stephi Wild - June 4, 2024
The sign up for the ‘Pay What You Can’ lottery for Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, and directed by Robert O’Hara, launches today. Plus, check out all new rehearsal photos here!
by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2024
As rehearsals begin, the full creative team and understudies have been revealed for the UK premiere of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. Learn more about the new members of the team here!
Slave Play History
Other Productions of Slave Play
| 2018 | Off-Broadway |
NYTW Off-Broadway World Premiere Off-Broadway |
| 2019 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2021 | Broadway |
Broadway Return Broadway |
| West End |
West End |
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