The Slave Play
Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O’Hara
New York Theatre Workshop
December 26, 2018
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

“White people still have the whip” claims Jeremy O’Harris in his crazy, rollarcoaster of a work, Slave Play.  It is perhaps the kinkiest and most unapologetic play I have seen in years. The crux of the play is a montage of three interracial couples (1. a young slave girl and her master; 2. An older plantation mistress with a biracial house slave; and 3. A white indentured laborer and the black male slave who oversees his work.  At the beginning of the play, these three couples are caught in the throughs of their erotic fantasy of domination and submission.  Continue reading The Slave Play →