{"id":54034,"date":"2017-08-05T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54034"},"modified":"2017-08-07T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T02:32:10","slug":"an-octoroon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54034","title":{"rendered":"An Octoroon"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Octoroon<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Woolly Mammoth Theater<\/a>
\n641 D Street, NW
\nWashington, D.C. 20004
\nTelephone: 202-393-3939<\/p>\n

2017-07-17 through 2017-08-06<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins<\/strong><\/a>
\nDirected by Nataki Garrett<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s most talked-about, most unforgettable production is returning to Woolly<\/a> for a limited three-week run: An Octoroon<\/em><\/a> by new MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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

An Octoroon<\/em>, Jacobs-Jenkins\u2019 Obie<\/a>-winning riff on a 19th century melodrama<\/a> that helped shape the debate around the abolition of slavery, is an incendiary adaptation. Part period satire, part meta-theatrical middle finger, it\u2019s a provocative challenge to the racial pigeonholing of 1859\u2014and of today.<\/p>\n

Featuring company members Shannon Dorsey, Jon Hudson Odom,\u00a0and Erika Rose<\/p>\n

Two and a half hours, with one intermission<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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