⭐ FISAYO AKINADE, KIT HARINGTON, AARON HEFFERNAN, OLIVIA WASHINGTON & MORE ANNOUNCED FOR UK PREMIERE OF SLAVE PLAY – BY JEREMY O. HARRIS – NOËL COWARD THEATRE – SUMMER 2024 ⭐
The UK premiere of SLAVE PLAY by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O’Hara, has been announced.
This ground-breaking and controversial play about race, identity, and sexuality in twenty-first century America will play a strictly limited season at the intimate Noël Coward Theatre.
The cast will include Fisayo Akinade (Heartstopper), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Aaron Heffernan (Brassic), Olivia Washington (I Am Virgo) alongside James Cusati-Moyer (Six Degrees of Separation), Chalia La Tour (The Good Fight), Annie McNamara (Orange is the New Black) and Irene Sofia Lucio (The Americans) who will reprise their roles from the original Broadway production.
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.
SLAVE PLAY was originally staged in 2018 at New York Theatre Workshop before transferring to Broadway’s John Golden Theatre in 2019. The production received 12 nominations at the 74th Tony Awards, breaking the record previously set by the revival of Angels in America to become the most Tony-nominated play of all time.
During the run of Slave Play there will be two BLACK OUT nights on 17th July & 17th September 2024.
BLACK OUT nights are the purposeful creation of an environment in which an all-Black-identifying audience can experience and discuss an event in the performing arts, film, athletic, and cultural spaces – free from the white gaze. A concept birthed by Jeremy O. Harris, the inaugural BLACK OUT night took place for a performance of Slave Play on Broadway on 18th September 2019. For the first time in history, all 804 seats of Broadway’s Golden Theatre were occupied by Black-identifying audience members in celebration and recognition of Broadway’s rich, diverse, and fraught history of Black work. The production is excited to carry on this work in the West End for the first time.
SLAVE PLAY will be designed by Clint Ramos, with costume by Dede Ayite, lighting by Jiyoun Chang and composition and sound design by Lindsay Jones.
SLAVE PLAY will play the Noël Coward Theatre, running from 29th June – 21st September 2024. Tickets go on general sale from 28th February 2024 – 10am.
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Tickets & more info – https://slaveplaylondon.com/
