An Octoroon review " blackface meets whiteface in quicksilver drama
Orange Tree, RichmondBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's extraordinary play is both an adaptation of a 19th-century melodrama and a dazzling postmodernist critique of itIf I say that this bizarrely brilliant play is the work of a 32-year-old black American dramatist called Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, I am already subscribing to an idea the piece seeks to subvert: that our identities can be defined by convenient labels. Even the not…