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.

'How to explain Harris? He is like Tennessee Williams, if Williams had been Prince. Or Truman Capote, if Capote had been Paradise Garage. He is a firebrand writer with whipcrack humour. He has two brilliant plays under his belt, Slave Play and Daddy. He is such a queer hero of our times that the New York neighbourhood he lives in has become fleetingly famous. One of Jeremy O. Harris's plays coming to London is a major event' Evening Standard

About the Author

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).

Reviews

'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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781839040078
Author Jeremy O. Harris
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books