Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Book Overview

"The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury...makes Appropriate land with the kind of thump you rarely encounter in the theater." --Chicago Tribune

"So energetic, funny, and entertainingly demented, you can't look away." --New York on An Octoroon

A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.

In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece.

Also includes the short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559364904
• ISBN13: 9781559364904
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.9"