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Appropriate review " Branden Jacobs-Jenkins pushes everything to the limit by Michael Billington

Donmar Warehouse, LondonDark secrets emerge as three siblings gather at their late father's old plantation home in this daring drama Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a subversive writer. In An Octoroon, based on a 19th-century Dion Boucicault melodrama, he questioned what it meant to be dubbed "a black playwright". In this play, also dating from 2014, he appropriates the classic American family drama with results that are b…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM on August 23, 2019

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