{"id":47463,"date":"2016-06-09T02:08:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47463"},"modified":"2016-07-08T02:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T02:15:35","slug":"an-octoroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47463","title":{"rendered":"An Octoroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woollymammoth.net\/octoroon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>An Octoroon<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woollymammoth.net\" target=\"_blank\">Woolly Mammoth Theater<\/a><br \/>\n641 D Street, NW<br \/>\nWashington, D.C. 20004<br \/>\n<strong>2016-05-30 through 2016-06-26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woollymammoth.net\/octoroon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woollymammoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Octoroon-Banner_NEW2-1260x380.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Branden_Jacobs-Jenkins\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Branden Jacobs-Jenkins<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDirected by <strong>Nataki Garrett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the part-black daughter of the estate\u2019s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying to keep things drama-free, because everybody else is acting crazy.<\/p>\n<p><em>An Octoroon<\/em>, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\u2019 Obie-winning riff on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36987\" target=\"_blank\">19th century melodrama<\/a> that helped shape the debate around the abolition of slavery, is an incendiary adaptation that the <em>New York Post<\/em> called \u201centertainingly demented.\u201d Part period satire, part meta-theatrical middle finger, it\u2019s a provocative challenge to the racial pigeonholing of 1859\u2014and of today.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a special Connectivity initiative around <em>An Octoroon<\/em>, join DC area changemakers, thought leaders, activists and artists for a provocative series of engagement opportunities around every single performance of <em>An Octoroon<\/em>. We want to inspire conversation and reflection. We want to galvanize our audiences. That\u2019s why we exist. That\u2019s what we promise our community. Please visit our House Lights Up Events page for more information about these special events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,6462,6940,20],"tags":[18486,24025,24024],"class_list":["post-47463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-branden-jacobs-jenkins","tag-nataki-garrett","tag-woolly-mammoth-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47463","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=47463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47468,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47463\/revisions\/47468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}