Where and when?
The UK premiere of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris (Daddy, Almeida Theatre; Euphoria, HBO), directed by Robert O’Hara (OBIE award-winning In The Continuum) will play a strictly limited season from 29 June – 21 September 2024 at the intimate Noël Coward Theatre. This ground-breaking and controversial play about race, identity, and sexuality in twenty-first century America.
Running Time: 2 hours without an interval
Age recommendation: 16+
Who’s in the cast?
The cast will include 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.
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.
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.
Access performances
Captioned performance: Saturday 3 August 2023 2.30pm
Audio Described performance: Saturday 17 August 2.30pm
Access Price (also Captioned and Audio Described): £32.25 Monday to Wednesday and £37.25 Thursday to Saturday.
During the run of Slave Play there will be two BLACK OUT nights on 17 July and 17 September. 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 18 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.
Pay What You Can & Day Seats:
From 26 June 30 tickets per show will be released each week on the Wednesday before at 10am at £1 and above. A further 10 day seats will be released each performance day at £20 each. Maximum of two per person.
Groups:
Schools 10+ grand circle and balcony tickets reduced to £15 Monday to Wednesday performances. (1 free teacher place). Max 22 tickets per applicable performance. Groups 12+ top price tickets reduced to £60 Monday to Wednesday performances. Strictly subject to availability.
Where can I get tickets?
Get tickets to Slave Play here