SCORCHING
WINNER! OBIE AWARD FOR
BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY!
Trouble has been a-brewin’ at the
Terrebonne Plantation since Judge
Peyton died. Money is running out, an
evil overseer is up to no good, and the
heir to the estate is in love with someone
he shouldn’t be. MacArthur Genius Grant
recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (author of
the AE hit Appropriate) turns a 19th-century
melodrama on its ear in this combustibly
hilarious, riotously subversive romp that hurls
the antebellum south into a direct collision
course with 21st century cultural politics.
JAN 26-FEB 24, 2019 DIRECTOR’S ROUGH CUT: JAN 23 • PREVIEWS: JAN 24-25
Why I Chose This Play
“Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is
one of the most exciting playwrights
writing for the American theatre today.
This play uses crazy theatricality to
cast a critical eye on the modern world
through the lens of the past.”
-Freddie Ashley
“PREPARE TO LAUGH.
PREPARE TO GASP
AND CRY AND CHEER
AND MMM-HMM
AND LEAVE THE
THEATRE REALLY
FEELING SOMETHING.”
–BROADWAYWORLD.COM
“MASOCHISTICALLY
BRILLIANT.”
– WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
“THIS WILDLY
IMAGINATIVE NEW
WORK...MIGHT
INDUCE VERTIGO,
BUT IT INSISTS THAT
MAKING THEATRE
CAN BE THE BEST
WAY TO TALK BACK
TO HISTORY.”
– VILLAGE VOICE
IF YOU LIKED AE’S PROVOCATIVE SMASH-HIT
APPROPRIATE, YOU WILL LOVE AN OCTOROON!
APPROPRIATE
John Osorio, Jan Wikstrom • Photo: Christopher Bartelski