Jeremy O. Harris’ broad send-up of race and sex in America, “Slave Play,” isn’t outrageously funny. But it does have its funny moments — and it certainly is outrageous…
,” isn’t outrageously funny. But it does have its funny moments — and it certainly is outrageous.
In the next scene, a sexually frustrated Southern belle named Alana bounces seductively on her great big canopied bed while flourishing a formidable black dildo. Her very handsome servant, Phillip , has no choice but to service his lusty mistress. Alana is what we might call a pistol. Inflamed with passion for the exquisite Phillip, a master on the violin, she orders him to stop playing “stuffy European music” like Beethoven and Mozart. “Play something that’ll make me hoot and holla like the negresses outside, waiting to run on ya later,” she says.
A little of this sophomoric humor goes a long way. It comes as a relief then, when — spoiler alert! — the next dramatic turn reveals that those three vignettes were only exercises at a sex-therapy retreat for interracial couples in troubled relationships. Director Robert O’Hara, however, doesn’t direct this new material with the same kind of inventive playfulness that made the previous play-fantasy scenes seem so clever.
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