Sign up for the ‘Pay What You Can’ lottery for Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O’Hara launches today as new rehearsal images are released.
Every Wednesday at 10am, starting on 26 June 2024, 30 tickets will be released for each performance the following week at £1 and above. To be the first to hear when the lottery goes live on 26 June sign up here.
There will also be 10 seats released on the morning for each performance day at £20 each (maximum of two per person). For further details please visit www.slaveplaylondon.com.
Jeremy O. Harris said: “Working with James Bierman and the team at Empire Street has been a dream for many reasons, but chief among them is the commitment we share in discovering ways to remove barriers for those who have never seen a West End show. Financial insecurity is one of the greatest barriers to anyone trying to see a play and one that stopped me from seeing my first show on Broadway until I was well into my 20s (just a year before my own production – Slave Play – transferred). I hope this can spark more initiatives like it.”
Rehearsals for Slave Play are currently underway as new photography is released. This ground-breaking play about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America will play a strictly limited season from 29 June – 21 September 2024 at the intimate Noël Coward Theatre.
The cast includes Fisayo Akinade (The Crucible, National Theatre; Heartstopper, Netflix), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, HBO; Industry S3, BBC), Aaron Heffernan (Brassic, Sky; Atlanta, FX) and Olivia Washington (I Am Virgo, Amazon Prime; Breaking, Bleecker Street) alongside James Cusati-Moyer (Six Degrees of Separation, Broadway; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix), Chalia La Tour (The Good Fight; Elementary, both CBS), Annie McNamara (Orange is the New Black, Netflix; Iowa, Playwrights Horizons) and Irene Sofia Lucio (The Americans, FX; Wit, Broadway) who will reprise their roles from the original Broadway production. The understudies completing the cast are Troy Alexander, Dimitri Gripari, Maite Jauregui, Prince Kundai and Malikah Mcherrin-Cobb.
The full creative team of Slave Play includes Clint Ramos (set design) Dede Ayite (costume design), Jiyoun Chang (lighting), and Lindsay Jones (composition and sound design), Amy Ball (casting), Aundrea Fudge (voice and dialect coach), Claire Warden (intimacy and fight director), Taylor Williams (original US casting) and Wabriya King (drama therapist) Byron Easley (US Choreographer) Jade Hackett (UK Choreographer).
