Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays

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';The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and furymakes 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...