In An Octoroon, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins explodes theatrical history — What do we do with melodrama today? Can a world of excessive emotion, mustache-twirling villains, tragic heroines, and exaggerated racial stereotypes have any resonance with our own? Or are we already inundated with melodramatic techniques—and the social norms they imply—without even realizing it? These questions are more »
SOURCE: TDF at 09:21AM on May 7, 2014