Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays

"The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury…makes Appropriate land with the kind of thump you rarely encounter in the theater." -Chicago Tribune

"So energetic, funny, and entertainingly demented, you can't look away." -New York on An Octoroon

A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.

In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece.

Also includes the short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's other plays include Neighbors, Appropriate, Gloria and War. His work has been seen or will be seen at The Vineyard Theater, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, The HighTide Festival (UK), Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens in Chicago, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He is a Lila Acheson Wallace fellow at the Juilliard School and a playwright-in-residence at Signature Theatre. Recent honors include a 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play (An Octoroon and Appropriate), as well as the Tennessee Williams Award, the Paula Vogel Award, and the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights.