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Tag: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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Last year’s most talked-about, most unforgettable production is returning to Woolly for a limited three-week run: “An Octoroon” by new MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins!
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Thank you for choosing to bring your students to the Wilma’s production of An Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. I applaud your willingness to take a risk on this one. While on some level we all understand that the most extraordinary learning opportunities emerge when we venture outside our comfort zone, most of us still gravitate…
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Meta-Melodrama: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriates Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon Modern Drama Volume 59, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 285-305 Verna A. Foster, Professor of English Loyola University Chicago In adapting the nineteenth-century melodrama The Octoroon, Jacobs-Jenkins both satirizes Boucicault’s racial assumptions and emulates his aesthetic principles to produce a meta-melodrama, a play that at once celebrates…
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Theatre Review: ‘An Octoroon’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Maryland Theatre Guide 2016-06-05 Jennifer Minich We need to talk about An Octoroon: a razor-sharp, thought-provoking, radical, comical blast from the past. Playwright and DC native (bonus points) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Woolly Mammoth for the DC premiere of An Octoroon, an adaption of the 1859…
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An Octoroon Woolly Mammoth Theater 641 D Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20004 2016-05-30 through 2016-06-26 By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Nataki Garrett A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the part-black daughter of the estate’s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying…
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Reading Racist Literature New Yorker 2015-04-13 Elif Batuman, Staff Writer Of the many passages that gave me pause when I first read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” in high school, the one I remember the most clearly is this conversation between Connie, Clifford, and the Irish writer Michaelis: “I find I can’t marry an Englishwoman, not even…
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Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race The New York Times 2015-02-26 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic Walking on a stage covered with cotton balls is a tricky business. It’s all too easy to slip into a pratfall. And forget about running or dancing or hopping like a bunny, as the characters sometimes…
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One Playwright’s ‘Obligation’ To Confront Race And Identity In The U.S. Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-02-16 Jeff Lunden Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins may be only 30 years old, but he’s already compiled an impressive resume. His theatrical works, which look at race and identity in America,…
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What is Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON? The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-03-17 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama Professor of Dramatic Criticism James Leverett from The Yale School of Drama joins us in this video to give context and background to Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama The…
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Amber Gray on ‘An Octoroon,’ at Soho Rep