‘Slave Play’ may be provocative, but it sure isn’t selling tickets The New York Times has a new darling: Jeremy O. Harris, whose “Slave Play” began previews Tuesday at … Now, Slave Play is coming to Broadway. Press J to jump to the feed. Much to the chagrin of the many detractors who were in an uproar about last month’s world premiere of Slave Play, the controversial drama’s creator is getting the last laugh. This is an ambitious, at times uneven satire about race and sex and power and politics that seems designed to provoke." Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America. On September 18th, Slave Play’s team saved all 804 seats at the Golden Theatre for black theatergoers only — and they filled the house. r/nytimes: Formerly, the Official New York Times Subreddit. Broadway review by Adam Feldman ... you may feel staggered. As The New York World editorialized, “To claim that the indolent, servile negro is the equal in courage, enterprise and fire of the foremost race in all the world is a libel upon the name of an American citizen. — Wesley Morris, New York Times The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in the crack of the whip. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation” (Vogue), this “dazzling … Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts ... Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play… Thom Geier for The Wrap The New York Times observed: “By completely omitting something terribly obvious—that the original fortune was made on the backs of slaves—the play suggests that the real evildoers were not the kindly young men from Bavaria who sold cloth,” but … As I wrote of its incarnation at New York Theatre Workshop, “Slave Play is funny, perceptive, probing and, at times… The New York Times is the most powerful engine for independent, boots-on-the-ground and deeply reported journalism. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times … It is unjust in every way to the white soldier to put him on a level with the black.” Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Slave Play Though it’s mild, paradoxical and perhaps a bit prurient to say so, “ Slave Play ” is a happy surprise. Jesse Green for New York Times "Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, which opened Sunday at Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop, is a giant trigger warning in three acts. From left, Ato Blankson-Wood, Chalia La Tour and Joaquina Kalukango in "Slave Play," which opened Sunday.