Measuring Worth with Drops of Blood in "An Octoroon"
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play, "An Octoroon," is a fresh takes on the Irish author, Dion Boucicault's nineteenth century play of the same name. Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful "octoroon." (Someone who is one-eighth black.) But, the evil overseer M'Closky has oth…
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