The addition of the newest play on Broadway is the Slave Play. It focuses on the hard clear depictions of uncomfortable themes. Created by Jeremy Harris, it captivates the audience and puts their morals and thoughts to the test of racism and sexual themes.

While it is unlikely that a fully provocative play will reach our theater it is possible that it will inspire future plays. It might influence future play’s down the line if it becomes incredibly famous. The themes of racism, being trapped in a relationship, or even some involvements of in equality in said relationships.

The play does not only focus on that form of racism and inequality in the play, but on the issues of entrapment in a relationship or being subjected to certain feelings that are represented in the play. The sexual themes that are intertwined add to that field of uncomfortable nature with the race involvements. A lot of the play involves the themes of “consensual actions” involved in the race field, what is appropriate and what isn’t, leaving you surrounded by mirrors to literally reflect on oneself and actions.

Additionally, when discussing the play a lot of point of views pop up. The most distinguishable and important part of analyzing this play is the possible integratable themes that they add to our play. 

As the drama teacher Kristina Cummins said, “When I watch plays I definitely gather inspiration from them and incorporate them into our theater.”

The plays presented in Capital’s theater, involve several themes of comedy, suspense, and mystery but every so often they can incorporate themes of harsh realities and formulate compelling arguments on certain issues. 

When asking A senior of Capital, Ashton Kinnamon if they would go see a play like Slave play in our theaters, they said “not exactly in our theater, the topics that they deal out are rough but combined with more adult themes, they aren’t exactly appropriate.”

Kristina Cummins said, “there is time, place and manner, something like Slave play is pushing far beyond our boundaries of what is acceptable”.

This is understandable due to the point of time, place and manner but it doesn’t mean that some of the themes that are represented in the play can’t be used in some aspects of our theater. In the end, as Slave play is becoming a massively recognized play on Broadway, it might not give way to our theater but it doesn’t mean that some of the more PG themes that it represents can’t be used in our play, close to the future.