29 June - 21 September 2024
Noël Coward Theatre
St.Martin’s Lane, 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.
“I challenge anyone to leave Slave Play without needing to argue in favour or against, describe moments, express solidarity or otherwise. A charismatic, needling theatre. An event.”Guardian
“Funny as it is eye wateringly provocative. The performances in Robert O’Hara’s superbly acted production are as witty as the script”Metro
“A sharp, intelligent, multi-layered satire”Independent
“It’s funny, clever and undoubtedly challenging”The Express
“Brilliantly clever, grotesquely funny, extremely disturbing”The Stage
“Intimate, tender, brave, repellent and gut wrenching”Time Out
“Likely to be the most talked about pieces of theatre of the year”Ajlovestheatre
“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