Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays (Revised Edition) (eBook)

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
193 Seiten
Theatre Communications Group (Verlag)
978-1-63670-238-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateWinner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a PlayA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece. This collection also includes the short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: African American playwright • Anger • Black playwright • broadway play • deconstructive masterpiece • Drama • Emotions • ghost story • hatred • LGBTQ+ playwright • Melodrama • meta-dramatic meditation • Naturalism • pathologies • racist past • sensationalism • statement on race in America today • strained familial dynamics • Surrealism • tense undercurrent of socio-political realities • theatre and identity • tyranny
• ISBN-10: 1-63670-238-4 / 1636702384
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63670-238-4 / 9781636702384