Slave game

Slave Game; Skeleton Crew; Alma Mater – review

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What a combative theatre week it has been. Three broadly political plays, driven more by talk than by physical action, that hit, reproach and argue. With varying effects. Flare ups and stings (there’s plenty of that), Slave Game arrives in London and has set Broadway alight. In the weeks leading up to opening night, its … Read more

What is slave play? Jeremy O. Harris’ controversial Broadway hit is coming to London’s West End this summer

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There was little surprise when Jeremy O. Harris’ 2018 work Slave Play transferred to Broadway less than a year after its premiere. There was a genuine clamor for its first performances at the 198-seat New York Theater Workshop, which critics had described as “deliberately provocative, ostentatiously transgressive and utterly unsettling” and “wildly imaginative.” The show’s … Read more