An Octoroon (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover
'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.
The UK premiere of the OBIE Award-winning play by Pulitzer Prize nominee Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, at London's Orange Tree Theatre.
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.
The UK premiere of the OBIE Award-winning play by Pulitzer Prize nominee Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, at London's Orange Tree Theatre.
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A wildly imaginative new work. --Village Voice
Something altogether new - a dazzling deconstruction of racial representation... deeply shocking, but darkly hilarious; satire at its most scornful. --whatsonstage.com
Messy, inspired, invigorating...playful and provocative... An impressive calling card from a brilliant young man doing his brilliant young-man thing. --The Times
A coruscating comedy of unresolved history... may turn out to be this decade's most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today. --New York Times
How do you deal with slavery as a black American playwright? Take someone else's play, and play with it. Problematise it. Take the p**s out of it. Take the pi**s out of the idea, too, of a 'black playwright' being constantly expected to confront race issues. But don't forget to still punch the audience in the guts. That's what Branden Jacobs-Jenkins does in An Octoroon... the play keeps you on your toes. It's bold, fearless playwrighting: laughing in the face of racism as well as allowing the horror of history to spell itself out. --Time Out
So energetic, funny, and entertainingly demented, you can't look away. --New York Post
Totally, totally bonkers... Jacob-Jenkins' text has a madcap mania and a rich vein of absurdist humour... An Octoroon is a play that refuses to kowtow to the audience's preconceptions, that dances with stereotypes and teases relentlessly with sly race politics. --The Stage
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Something altogether new - a dazzling deconstruction of racial representation... deeply shocking, but darkly hilarious; satire at its most scornful. --whatsonstage.com
Messy, inspired, invigorating...playful and provocative... An impressive calling card from a brilliant young man doing his brilliant young-man thing. --The Times
A coruscating comedy of unresolved history... may turn out to be this decade's most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today. --New York Times
How do you deal with slavery as a black American playwright? Take someone else's play, and play with it. Problematise it. Take the p**s out of it. Take the pi**s out of the idea, too, of a 'black playwright' being constantly expected to confront race issues. But don't forget to still punch the audience in the guts. That's what Branden Jacobs-Jenkins does in An Octoroon... the play keeps you on your toes. It's bold, fearless playwrighting: laughing in the face of racism as well as allowing the horror of history to spell itself out. --Time Out
So energetic, funny, and entertainingly demented, you can't look away. --New York Post
Totally, totally bonkers... Jacob-Jenkins' text has a madcap mania and a rich vein of absurdist humour... An Octoroon is a play that refuses to kowtow to the audience's preconceptions, that dances with stereotypes and teases relentlessly with sly race politics. --The Stage
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. He won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon. His play Gloria was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2016.
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- PublisherNick Hern Books
- Publication date2017
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- ISBN 13 9781848426412
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. '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.The play 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. It transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2018.An Octoroon won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the Most Promising Playwright Award at the Evening Standard Awards in 2017. He was also named Most Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in 2018 for his plays Gloria and An Octoroon.'Coruscating comedy of unresolved history this decade's most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today' New York Times'A giddy mix of the angry and the absurd Jacobs-Jenkins is considering important issues about race and representation and making something playful and provocative from them inspired, invigorating' The Times'Bizarrely brilliant a work that is both infinitely playful and deeply serious and which dazzlingly questions the nature of theatrical illusion' Guardian'Half of the fun and there is a hell of a lot of fun in watching An Octoroon is witnessing people squirm with discomfort, unsure if to laugh, when to laugh or if they are even allowed to laugh Jacobs-Jenkins is like one of those magicians who shows you how the trick works and still leaves you agog with wonder' The Upcoming'A dazzlingly playful and sharply provocative look at ideas of race, representation and the nature of theatre itself' Evening Standard'A dazzling deconstruction of racial representation deeply shocking, but darkly hilarious; satire at its most scornful with a savage and sophisticated sense of irony, Jacobs-Jenkins sinks his teeth into the relationship between representations and reality' WhatsOnStage'A major work of new American drama borrowing [from original play The Octoroon] is a stroke of inspiration in itself melodrama being a self-referential genre, the satiric contexts of then and now contrast very nicely but it's the richness of Jacobs-Jenkins's own imagination that really sets this show soaring. make no mistake about it, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright to watch' The Arts DeskMost Promising Playwright, Critics' Circle AwardsMost Promising Playwright, Evening Standard AwardsOBIE Award for Best New American Play The Obie Award-winning play about race and identity in America today. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781848426412
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