Where and when?
29 June – 21 September 2024
Noël Coward Theatre, 85-88 St Martin’s Ln, London, WC2N 4AP
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm
Wednesday and Saturday 2.30pm
Who’s in the cast
Fisayo Akinade, James Cusati-Moyer, Kit Harington, Aaron Heffernan, Chalia La Tour, Annie McNamara, Irene Sofia Lucio and Olivia Washington.
The understudies are Troy Alexander, Dimitri Gripari, Maite Jauregui, Prince Kundai and Malikah Mcherrin-Cobb. They join the previously announced cast which includes Fisayo Akinade (The Crucible, National Theatre; Heartstopper,Netflix), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, HBO; True West, West End), Aaron Heffernan (Brassic, Sky; Atlanta, FX), Olivia Washington (I Am Virgo, Amazon Prime; Breaking, Bleecker Street) alongside James Cusati-Moyer (Six Degrees of Separation, Broadway; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix), Chalia La Tour(The Good Fight; Elementary, both CBS), Annie McNamara (Orange is the New Black, Netflix; Iowa, Playwrights Horizons) and Irene Sofia Lucio (The Americans, FX; Wit, Broadway) who will reprise their roles from the original Broadway production.
Creative team
The full creative team of Slave Play includes Clint Ramos (set design) Dede Ayite (costume design), Jiyoun Chang (lighting), and Lindsay Jones (composition and sound design), Amy Ball (casting), Aundrea Fudge (voice and dialect coach), Claire Warden (intimacy and fight director), Taylor Williams(original US casting) and Wabriya King (drama therapist) Byron Easley (US Choreographer) Jade Hackett (UK Choreographer).
What’s the show about?
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.
Access
Captioned Performance
Saturday 3 August 2024 at 2:30pm
Audio Described Performance
Saturday 17 August 2024 at 2:30pm
Pay What You Can Lottery
30 tickets per show are released each week on the Wednesday before at 10am at £1 and above.
Black Out Nights
17 July and 17 September
As the producers of SLAVE PLAY in the West End, our intent is to celebrate the play with the widest possible audience. We want to increase accessibility to theatre for everyone.
Anyone can buy a ticket to any performance of the play and our day seats and lottery ticketing schemes apply to all performances.
The performances on 17 July and 17 September will be a celebration of the play and its exploration of race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America. Hosted by Jeremy O. Harris, Ekow Eshun and Zawe Ashton, we will be joined by special guests pre- and post-show with specially curated music and conversation and the bars will stay open after the talkback to keep the conversation flowing. There will also be a free informal post-show forum presented in partnership with Pudding to discuss the show and share feedback. The team will be on hand after the show with free dessert and ready to chat. For more information see pudding.org.uk.
Running Time: 2 hours without an interval
Age recommendation: 16+
What did I think?
When I had to pass through four different Ushers, insisting people put stickers over their phone cameras on entering the auditorium, I wasn’t surprised after everything I had heard about this Play. And yes, the first fifteen minutes isn’t something I’d particularly like to watch with my granny sitting next to me but it certainly wasn’t the hardcore Play I was expecting. And the other one hour and forty five minutes (with no interval) was taken up with a group sex therapy session where the characters tried to battle their demons with race and equality. Sadly, whilst there were several topics of discussion that left me with food for thought, I never really understood why these couples were there and why they felt the need to seek out this kind of therapy. I left, hungry for more than a cantaloupe melon and wondering if I’d ever actually seen Kit Harrington in a Play where he keeps his clothes on.
Where can I get tickets?
Get tickets to Slave Play here
