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An Octoroon
by Branden Jacobs-jenkins
Synopsis
What you gonna do once you free?
You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,"Hey.
I'm a slave.
Help me?"' Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins.
Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful 'octoroon'.
But the dastardly M'Closky has other plans - for both Terrebonne and Zoe.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' exhilarating play, An Octoroon, draws on Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon to explore issues about race and identity in America today.
It won an OBIE Award when it was first seen in New York in 2014, and had its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2017, winning Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the Most Promising Playwright Award at the Evening Standard Awards.
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Publisher Nick Hern Books
Year 2017
Binding Paperback
Pages 96
Language English
ISBN-13 9781848426412
ISBN-10 1848426410
LCC PS3560.A2583
An Octoroon is a American adaptation play written by Branden Jacobs-jenkins and published by Nick Hern Books (2017).
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