Slave Play
August Wilson Theatre
Previews Began: November 23, 2021
Opening Night: December 2, 2021
Closing Night: January 23, 2022
Playwright: Jeremy O. Harris
Music: Lindsay Jones
The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in the crack of the whip. It’s an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master’s House. Jim trembles as Kaneisha handles melons in the cottage, Alana perspires in time with the plucking of Phillip’s fiddle in the boudoir, while Dustin cowers at the heel of Gary’s big, black boot in the barn. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems.
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Ato Blankson-Wood Gary
Antoinette Crowe-Legacy Kaneisha
Jonathan Chad Higginbotham Phillip
Devin Kawaoka Dustin
Chalia La Tour Teá
Irene Sofia Lucio Patricia
Annie McNamara Alana
Paul Alexander Nolan Jim
Understudies: Eboni Flowers (Kaneisha, Teá), Blake Russell (Phillip), Luigi Sottile (Jim, Dustin), Elizabeth Stahlmann (Alana, Patricia) Galen J. Williams (Gary)
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