Director Nataki Garrett remembers studying the script of Dion Boucicault's 1859 antebellum melodrama The Octoroon in college. While working with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Neighbors in 2010, she learned he had workshopped an updated version of the play in New York. "I was hinting, not so subtly, that I wanted to read it really badly," […] The post Nataki Garrett directs provocative Octoroon …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AM on June 2, 2016