An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Paperback Book

Description: An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins The Obie Award-winning play about race and identity in America today. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,"Hey. Im a slave. Help me?"Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peytons handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the dastardly MClosky has other plans – for both Terrebonne and Zoe.Branden Jacobs-Jenkins exhilarating play, An Octoroon, draws on Dion Boucicaults 1859 melodrama The Octoroon to explore issues about race and identity in America today.The play won an OBIE Award when it was first seen in New York in 2014, and had its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2017. It transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2018.An Octoroon won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the Most Promising Playwright Award at the Evening Standard Awards in 2017. He was also named Most Promising Playwright at the Critics Circle Awards in 2018 for his plays Gloria and An Octoroon.Coruscating comedy of unresolved history… this decades most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today— New York TimesA giddy mix of the angry and the absurd… Jacobs-Jenkins is considering important issues about race and representation and making something playful and provocative from them… inspired, invigorating— The TimesBizarrely brilliant… a work that is both infinitely playful and deeply serious and which dazzlingly questions the nature of theatrical illusion— GuardianHalf of the fun – and there is a hell of a lot of fun – in watching An Octoroon is witnessing people squirm with discomfort, unsure if to laugh, when to laugh or if they are even allowed to laugh… Jacobs-Jenkins is like one of those magicians who shows you how the trick works and still leaves you agog with wonder— The UpcomingA dazzlingly playful and sharply provocative look at ideas of race, representation and the nature of theatre itself— Evening StandardA dazzling deconstruction of racial representation… deeply shocking, but darkly hilarious; satire at its most scornful… with a savage and sophisticated sense of irony, Jacobs-Jenkins sinks his teeth into the relationship between representations and reality— WhatsOnStageA major work of new American drama… borrowing [from original play The Octoroon] is a stroke of inspiration in itself – melodrama being a self-referential genre, the satiric contexts of then and now contrast very nicely – but its the richness of Jacobs-Jenkinss own imagination that really sets this show soaring... make no mistake about it, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright to watch— The Arts DeskMost Promising Playwright, Critics Circle AwardsMost Promising Playwright, Evening Standard AwardsOBIE Award for Best New American Play Author Biography Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. He won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon. His play Gloria was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other credits include: Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater), and Neighbors (The Public Theater).A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his recent honors include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the Tennessee Williams Award. He currently teaches in the Hunter College Playwriting MFA Program. Review Coruscating comedy of unresolved history… this decades most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today -- Ben Brantley * New York Times *A giddy mix of the angry and the absurd… Jacobs-Jenkins is considering important issues about race and representation and making something playful and provocative from them… inspired, invigorating * The Times *Bizarrely brilliant… a work that is both infinitely playful and deeply serious and which dazzlingly questions the nature of theatrical illusion * Guardian *Half of the fun – and there is a hell of a lot of fun – in watching An Octoroon is witnessing people squirm with discomfort, unsure if to laugh, when to laugh or if they are even allowed to laugh… Jacobs-Jenkins is like one of those magicians who shows you how the trick works and still leaves you agog with wonder * The Upcoming *A dazzlingly playful and sharply provocative look at ideas of race, representation and the nature of theatre itself * Evening Standard *A dazzling deconstruction of racial representation… deeply shocking, but darkly hilarious; satire at its most scornful… with a savage and sophisticated sense of irony, Jacobs-Jenkins sinks his teeth into the relationship between representations and reality * WhatsOnStage *A major work of new American drama… borrowing [from original play The Octoroon] is a stroke of inspiration in itself – melodrama being a self-referential genre, the satiric contexts of then and now contrast very nicely – but its the richness of Jacobs-Jenkinss own imagination that really sets this show soaring... make no mistake about it, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright to watch * The Arts Desk *How do you deal with slavery as a black American playwright? Take someone elses play, and play with it. Problematise it. Take the piss out of it. Take the piss out of the idea, too, of a black playwright being constantly expected to confront race issues. But dont forget to still punch the audience in the guts. Thats what Branden Jacobs-Jenkins does in An Octoroon… the play keeps you on your toes. Its bold, fearless playwrighting: laughing in the face of racism as well as allowing the horror of history to spell itself out * Time Out *Totally, totally bonkers… Jacob-Jenkins text has a madcap mania and a rich vein of absurdist humour… An Octoroon is a play that refuses to kowtow to the audiences preconceptions, that dances with stereotypes and teases relentlessly with sly race politics * The Stage *A fresh and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American experience of race and colour… forces the audience to confront uncomfortable issues and yet remains funny and incredibly engaging * Broadway World *So energetic, funny, and entertainingly demented, you cant look away * New York Post *The play uses the plot of the Irish playwright Dion Boucicaults 1859 melodrama The Octoroon... as the starting point for a bigger, wilder, more hilarious play about the tremendous, often tragic difficulties of identity, and life, for us all * New Yorker *A wildly imaginative new work * Village Voice * Details ISBN1848426410 Pages 96 Publisher Nick Hern Books Year 2017 ISBN-10 1848426410 ISBN-13 9781848426412 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint Nick Hern Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 812.6 Series NHB Modern Plays AU Release Date 2017-05-18 NZ Release Date 2017-05-18 Publication Date 2017-05-18 UK Release Date 2017-05-18 Author Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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