Slave Play
OFF SALE
February 9 – March 13, 2022
Breaks Box Office Record
THE GAME-CHANGING LANDMARK PLAY DIRECT FROM BROADWAY
“Slave Play awakens the Mark Taper Forum with a jolt.” -- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“Grade A! A provocative, probing experience.” -- Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly
It's the most Tony Award®-nominated play in history. It stunned off-Broadway. Then it shocked Broadway. Now, Jeremy O. Harris, “a major new voice in the American theater” (Chicago Tribune), brings his “raw, revelatory, and revolutionary play” (The Daily Beast) to the Taper, in the same production that roiled New York. Directed by two-time NAACP and Obie Award® winner Robert O’Hara, Slave Play is “one of the best and most provocative new works to show up in years” (The New York Times).
At the MacGregor Plantation, nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. It’s an antebellum fever-dream as three interracial couples converge to rip open history at the intersection of race, love, and sexuality in 21st-century America. It's a world where the sex is as raw as the emotions, and the twists as salacious as the truth. Don’t dare shy away from this production that “reimagines the possibilities of what theatre can give us” (The New York Times).
“[A] revelatory, potentially game-changing piece of theater.” -- Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly
“No theatrical work in recent memory has had the seismic impact of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play” -- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“[Jeremy O.] Harris and [Robert] O’Hara understand the power of silence and stillness.” -- Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly
Creative Team
By Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Scenic Design Clint Ramos
Costume Design Dede Ayite
Lighting Design Jiyoun Chang
Sound Design & Original Music Lindsay Jones
Hair and Wig Designer Cookie Jordan
Movement Byron Easley
Intimacy & Fight Direction (Based on the original intimacy and fight direction by Claire Warden and Teniece Divya Johnson) Teniece Divya Johnson
Casting Taylor Williams, Victor Vazquez
Production Stage Manager Kelly A. Martindale
cast
Rashaad Hall
Kineta Kunutu
James Patrick Nelson
Galen J. Williams
Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
Jonathan Higginbotham
Devin Kawaoka
Chalia La Tour
Irene Sofia Lucio
Paul Alexander Nolan
Jakeem Dante Powell
Elizabeth Stahlmann
Jordan Lis Cooper
OFF SALE
Opens Wednesday, February 16, 2022, at 8 p.m. (Previews February 9 - February 15, 2022) Through March 13, 2022
The West Coast premiere of playwright Jeremy O. Harris' unflinching new work “Slave Play” reopened the Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum with the highest grossing five week engagement in the storied theatre’s more than 50-year history. The production that ran February 9 through March 13, 2022, grossed $1,433,830 while offering almost 5,000 free or discounted tickets.
Performance Days and Times:• Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m. • Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. • Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. • No Monday performances • Exceptions: None Run Time and Intermission: 2 hours with no intermission Ticket Prices: $35 – $110 (Ticket prices are subject to change.)