New from TCG Books:
Slave Play
by Jeremy O. Harris
NEW YORK, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. Slave Play received its world premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in New York in the fall of 2018. The play opened on Broadway at the Golden Theatre in October 2019.
“The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” — 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. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America.
“Uncomfortably funny and gruesomely sexy.” —Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker
Jeremy O. Harris, “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation,” (Vogue) is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and actor. His plays include Slave Play; “Daddy”; Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1; and “WATER SPORTS”; or insignificant white boys. Jeremy co-wrote A24’s film Zola with director Janicza Bravo. Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama’s MFA Playwriting Program.
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Slave Play
By Jeremy O. Harris
168 pages
January 2020
$15.95
Paperback
978-1-55936-978-7
eBook
978-1-55936-934-3
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