Slave Play - 2019 Broadway History , Info & More
John Golden Theatre (Broadway)
252 West 45th St. New York, NY
It stunned audiences with a sold-out run at New York Theatre Workshop. Now, Slave Play is coming to Broadway. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, "one of the most promising playwrights of his generation" (Vogue), this "dazzling mix of satire and psychodrama" (The New York Times) is directed by two-time NAACP and OBIE Award winner Robert O'Hara.
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 21st-century America.
Slave Play - 2019 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Slave Play
‘Slave Play’ is a funny, scalding, walk along the boundary between black and white in America
9 / 10
It's in that persuasive finale, devoted to the tormented exasperation of Kalukango's sublimely rendered Kaneisha, that we get the stunning truth of what her character is after - and that only Nolan's expertly, intuitively constructed Jim can help her through. It is, in a cosmic sense, what 'Slave Play' is after, too. I cannot reveal to you what that catharsis is. I can just tell you that 'Slave Play' delivered one to me - and in the process opened my eyes and ears more fully, and gratefully.
SLAVE PLAY: PROVOCATIVE, POETIC, AND DISQUIETING
8 / 10
Because Slave Play-sharply and smartly directed by Robert O'Hara-is a show that needs to be processed. Admittedly, that is a terribly clinical way to put it. 'Can you stop saying processing?' yells one character, Jim (Paul Alexander Nolan). 'We aren't computers. My emotions aren't materials.' But fair warning: As the program note by poet-novelist Morgan Parker begins, 'This might hurt.'
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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 |
Slave Play - 2019 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Ato Blankson-Wood |
| 2020 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Play | Slave Play |
| 2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Joaquina Kalukango |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | Dede Ayite |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Robert O'Hara |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | Jiyoun Chang |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score | Lindsay Jones |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Ato Blankson-Wood |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | James Cusati-Moyer |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Chalia La Tour |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Annie McNamara |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Joaquina Kalukango |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Jeremy O. Harris |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Clint Ramos |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Lindsay Jones |
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