Slave Play, Noel Coward Theatre, London, July 2024: Theory Takes the Stage
December 2025
Jeremy O Harris’s Slave Play arrives in London from New York as a cause célèbre. Though not a commercial hit on Broadway, failing to recoup its almost four-million-dollar investment, the production nonetheless was a media and online sensation — a cultural event, fuelling dinner party conversations from Uptown to the Bowery.
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