{"id":38464,"date":"2014-11-23T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38464"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:13:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:13:20","slug":"what-is-dion-boucicaults-the-octoroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38464","title":{"rendered":"What is Dion Boucicault\u2019s THE OCTOROON?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sohorep.org\/what-is-dion-boucicaults-the-octoroon\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What is Dion Boucicault\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>THE OCTOROON<\/strong><em><strong>?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sohorep.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Soho Repository<\/a><br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\n2014-03-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drama.yale.edu\/facstaff\/james-leverett\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>James Leverett<\/strong><\/a>, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism<br \/>\n<em>Yale School of Drama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor of Dramatic Criticism James Leverett from The Yale School of Drama joins us in this video to give context and background to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dion_Boucicault\" target=\"_blank\">Dion Boucicault\u2019s<\/a> 1859 melodrama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36987\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Octoroon<\/em><\/a>. In our next mainstage play, playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcg.org\/publications\/at\/issue\/featuredstory.cfm?story=7&amp;indexID=44\" target=\"_blank\">Branden Jacobs-Jenkins<\/a> has radically reshaped the original to dizzying meta-theatrical effect.<\/p>\n<p>Boucicault\u2019s play courted immediate controversy when it debuted in the US. The play examines race, slavery, gender, and the 19th century\u2019s perception of these themes; in other words, a prime play for Jacob-Jenkins (author of the blistering <em>Neighbors<\/em>\u00a0and current <em>Appropriate<\/em>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signaturetheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Signature Theatre<\/a>) to explore.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F6N6hGfY6tk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Dion Boucicault\u2019s 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\u2019s 1859 melodrama The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,6940,20,842],"tags":[18486,1627,18496,18495,18494],"class_list":["post-38464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-videos","tag-branden-jacobs-jenkins","tag-dion-boucicault","tag-james-leverett","tag-soho-repository","tag-the-soho-repository"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49214,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38464\/revisions\/49214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}