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How Appropriate Director Lila Neugebauer and Dots Created the Epilogue 'Dream Ballet' by Darryn King

In a conversation with Broadway.com last year, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins described what he's going for in his uniquely lyrical stage directions: "I felt like the idea is to be inspirational," he said. "The language you use has to activate the actor's imagination." The opening stage direction of Appropriate, his play about the secrets unearthed during a fraught family reunion, is both simple and strange: "Light abandons…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM on May 30, 2024

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