Rehearsal images released for West End production of SLAVE PLAY

Emmie Newitt 4 June, 2024, 16:45

Jeremy O. Harris' groundbreaking play begins its limited run in the West End later this month.

slave play west end rehearsal Chalia La Tour, Olivia Washington, Kit Harington. Slave Play London Rehearsals. Photo by Helen Murray.

Here's your first look at the cast of Slave Play in rehearsals with performances beginning at the Noel Coward Theatre from 29 June.

Centering on race, identity and sexuality in the twenty-first century, Slave Play's 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.