Jeremy O. Harris doc SLAVE PLAY: NOT A MOVIE: A PLAY to premiere at Tribeca Festival

A new documentary film based on Jeremy O. Harris’ play SLAVE PLAY will premiere at The Tribeca Festival in New York this summer.

Directed by Harris and produced by Chris Moukarbel, the film, titled Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play, is described “a playful and illuminating self-portrait of writer Jeremy O. Harris as he workshops and mines Slave Play, the provocative play that thrust him into the spotlight, with a new cast of young actors from New York’s William Esper Studio.”

The Tribeca Festival, a creative arts festival that celebrates storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, music, audio storytelling, games, and immersive takes place 5-16 June 2024 in New York.

Harris’s explosive and provocative play is set to open at the Noel Coward Theatre in London this June starring Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington.

Slave Play is a three-act drama that follows three interracial couples undergoing “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy” because the black partners no longer feel sexual attraction to their white partners.

The piece premiered off-Broadway on 19 November 2018, and then opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on 6 October 2019; it picked up 12 nominations – the most for any play – at the 74th Tony Award nominations though it did not receive any awards.

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Main photo: Jeremy O. Harris. Photo: HBO/ Tribeca Festival