This article contains spoilers for Slave Play.
As I joined the long queue outside London’s Noël Coward Theatre for Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, I was greeted by an usher who asked to see my phone. When I produced my mobile, the usher put a sticker over my phone’s camera that said “Starbucks!” (an inside joke from the play, I later discovered). Several times before we took our seats, ushers verified that the stickers on our phones were in place.
Beyond the standard pre-show announcements to silence our phones, the extra precautions are down to the show’s celebrity male nudity. At the play’s denouement, Jim (Kit Harrington) undresses and remains nude for the duration of the performance.
