Afua Hirsch Instagram – ‘I don’t write to be a politician. I could have been a politician if I wanted to, but I chose to be someone who was mining my own questions about society, so I could make sense of myself,’ @jeremyoharris tells @afuahirsch in this week’s issue of ES Magazine.
There is no doubt Harris’s hit show, Slave Play, which opens in London shortly, mines those questions. The play, which garnered a then-recordbreaking 12 Tony nominations during its run on Broadway, explores race, power and attraction in interracial relationships, in the charged setting of a slave plantation of the antebellum South. It has also ensured politics is never far away. Harris’s decision to hold ‘Black Out’ nights in London, encouraging all-Black audiences, prompted Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson to issue a statement decrying the move as ‘wrong and divisive’.
Pick up your copy of ES Magazine today and tomorrow to read the full feature.
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