Slave Play
Playwrights Canada Press · Paperback · February 4, 2020
The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in the crack of the whip.
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- Who it’s for
- A provocative theatrical lens on how race, gender, and sexuality shape present-day America.
- Themes
- Race, gender, and sexuality, Legacy of the Old South, History and its reinterpretation
- Genres
- African American Plays, LGBTQ+ Plays, Slavery Studies
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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.
History Under Pressure
A provocative theatrical lens on how race, gender, and sexuality shape present-day America.
Come here for
- The charged intersection of race, gender, and sexuality
- A sharp reworking of history’s hold on the present
Expect
- Edgy ideas with theatrical force
- A play that unsettles easy assumptions
Where it sits
| LGBTQ+ Plays | 89% |
|---|---|
| African American Plays | 65% |
| Slavery Studies | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Plays
- Authors
- Jeremy O. Harris
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Published
- February 4, 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Race, gender, and sexuality · Legacy of the Old South · History and its reinterpretation
- Reading lane
- African American Plays