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"Appropriate" Reformulates the Race Card by Broadway & Me

The two previous plays by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that I've seen" Neighbors and The Octoroon: An Adaptation of the Octoroon Based on the Octoroon"featured black actors wearing black face and portraying stereotypical characters like Sambo, Topsy, Mammy and a tragic (is there any other kind) mulatto. But all the characters are white in Appropriate, Jacobs-Jenkins' new play that opened in The Griffin theater at The …

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:42AM on March 19, 2014

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