8 / 10
The acting is both raw and precise, and O’Hara maintains a hair-trigger tension as Harris flings us between shock, hilarity and horror. For all that, the play feels overlong, and the sense of the characters as fully developed individuals is fitful, squeezed by the heightened tone of the writing. Yet it is a fearlessly probing work that goes much further than flirting with the politically unsayable; confrontational and insistently troubling.
4 / 10
Never mind the sex and nudity (the literal bollocks) - at its core Slave Play is too obsessed with conceptual naval gazing to the extent that it forgets that its characters are human beings. The vast majority of it is stuffed by a overwrought therapy session where the couples whine and whinge about their sex problems – suggested, by harpy-like therapists spouting meaningless therapy jingo, to stem from racial trauma that they must now exorcise.
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For a play that wears controversy as a badge of honour the last thing I expected to feel was slightly bored
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| 2018 | Off-Broadway |
NYTW Off-Broadway World Premiere Off-Broadway |
| 2019 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2021 | Broadway |
Broadway Return Broadway |
