Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) adapted The Octoroon, a 1859 Abolitionist melodrama by Irishman Dion Boucicault, into a provocative, controversial, and (almost) entirely new play, An Octoroon at Soho Rep. In An Octoroon, George, the heir to his uncle’s plantation, tries to save the property (the land, materials, and slaves) from being sold to M’Closky,[...]The post An Octoroon …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:34PM on May 6, 2014