Company One + ArtsEmerson: An Octoroon
When:
Friday, Jan 29, 2016 8:00p -
Saturday, Feb 27, 2016 10:00p
Friday, Jan 29, 2016 8:00p -
Saturday, Feb 27, 2016 10:00p
Where:
Jackie Liebergott Black Box in Emerson/Paramount Center
559 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
Admission:
$25 and up
Categories:
Date Idea, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://companyone.org/production/an-octoroon-play/
A New England Premiere
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Summer L. Williams
January 29 – February 27, 2016
A co-production with ArtsEmerson
Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Paramount Center
The hottest play of 1859 is back! Sort of …
There's trouble at the plantation: No one is falling in love with who they should be, someone has been murdered, and, unless the mail comes soon, all hope is lost! Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (author of Neighbors, Appropriate) radically revises a 19th century melodrama — complete with blushing Southern belles, dastardly schemes, and budding forbidden romances — for today's "post-racial," spectacle-obsessed world. Winner of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, An Octoroon is an incendiary, subversively funny exploration of identity, jammed with sensation and surprises!
“Hilarious and harrowing... This decade's most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.” — The New York Times
“A wildly imaginative new work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins … it insists that making theater can be the best way to talk back to history” — The Village Voice
