An Octoroon
This post is by Daniel J. Lee In 2015, it's a bold move to revive a century and a half-old play that bears a racially insensitive title, and it's an even bolder move to refrain from apologizing for such source material. Nevertheless, playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins does just that in An Octoroon, his adaptation of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama "The Octoroon." Back by popular demand from its previo…