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

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

An audacious new play that explores the ways in which historical trauma affects the present-day intersections of race, gender, and sexuality.

Zusammenfassung

“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.