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Jeremy O. Harris Talks New York Theatre Workshop's "Slave Play"

Published: Dec. 7, 2018, midnight

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. In the provocative and explosive new play, "Slave Play," Jeremy O. Harris rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender and sexuality in 21st century America.