Slave Play

by Jeremy O. Harris

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in the crack of the whip. It’s an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master’s House. Jim trembles as Kaneisha handles melons in the cottage, Alana perspires in time with the plucking of Phillip’s fiddle in the boudoir, while Dustin cowers at the heel of Gary’s big, black boot in the barn. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. In this provocative and explosive new play, Jeremy O. Harris rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender and sexuality in 21st century America. Obie Award winner Robert O’Hara directs. SLAVE PLAY is the recipient of the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences and the 2018 Paula Vogel Award.

Slave Play

John Golden Theatre

First Preview 10, Sept 2019

Opening Night 06, Oct 2019

Closing 05, Jan 2020

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Cast

Ato Blankson-Wood – Gary

James Cusati-Moyer – Dustin

Sullivan Jones – Broadway Debut – Phillip

Joaquina Kalukango – Kanesha

Chania La Tour – Broadway Debut – Tea

Irene Sofia Lucio – Patricia

Annie McNamara – Broadway Debut – Alana

Paul Alexander Nolan – Jim

Understudies: Eboni Flowers (Kaneisha, Teá), Thomas Keegan (Jim, Dustin), Jakeem Dante Powell (Gary, Phillip) and Elizabeth Stahlmann (Alana, Patricia)

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Creative

Produced by Seaview Productions, Troy Carter, Level Forward, Nine Stories and Thomas Laub

Written by Jeremy O. Harris; Original Music by Lindsay Jones

Directed by Robert O’Hara

Scenic Design by Clint Ramos
Costume Design by Dede Ayite
Lighting Design by Jiyoun Chang
Sound Design by Lindsay Jones

Executive Producer: Mark Shacket
General Manager: Foresight Theatrical

Casting: Taylor Williams
Press Representative: DKC/O&M
Dramaturg: Amauta Marston-Firmino
Movement directed by Byron Easley
Intimacy and Fight Director Claire Warden

John Golden Theatre

The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theatre Masque on February 24, 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion. Seventy-six years later it housed another production known for its puppets, the award-winning Avenue Q. In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and ’50s before it was purchased by the Shubert Organization, who returned it to full-time theatrical use. The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film A Chorus Line. It is also shown in the background during the opening scenes of All About Eve as the home of Margot Channing’s Aged In Wood.

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Address

252 W 45th St (between 8 Ave & 7 Ave) New York, NY 10036

Transport

Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Square

Phone

(212) 239-6200

Box Office

Monday – Saturday 10am – 8.00pm – Sun – Noon – 7pm

Access Information

Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible.There are no steps into theatre from the sidewalk. Please be advised that where there are steps either into or within the theatre, we are unable to provide assistance.

Orchestra: Seating is accessible to all parts of the orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only.

Not wheelchair accessible. Restrooms located down 2 flights of steps (down 19 steps to lower level.) Wheelchair accessible restrooms located in the Schoenfeld Theatre.

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Slave Play reviews Ato Blankson-Wood, James Cusati-Moyer, Sullivan Jones, Joaquina Kalukango, Chalia La Tour, Irene Sofia Lucio, Annie McNamara, Paul Alexander Nolan

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