The announcement of Jeremy O Harris’ West End run of Slave Play was greeted with equal measures of glee and trepidation. What would London make of this controversial play that, while on Broadway, sparked debate to a level that a new play hasn’t done for years?
Since Slave Play’s debut in 2018, Harris has written art-world satirical melodrama Daddy, and co-produced smash hit, star-making series Euphoria. The sense of anarchy and the surreal level of realism common to all three projects is especially palpable in Slave Play, written while Harris was completing his master’s at Yale.
