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* OBIE Award Winner! Best Play!* Los Angeles Premiere
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A modern-day Black playwright struggling to find his voice among a chorus of people telling him what he should and should not be writing. He decides to adapt his favorite play, Boucicault’s The Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama about illicit interracial love. The Black playwright quickly realizes that getting White, male actors of today to play evil slave owners will not be easy… so, he decides to play the White male roles himself — in whiteface. What ensues is an upside-down, topsy-turvy world where race and morality are challenged, mocked, and savagely intensified. A highly stylized, theatrical, melodramatic reality is created to tell the story of an octoroon woman (a person who is one-eighth Black) and her quest for identity and love.
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Judith Moreland
https://www.fountaintheatre.com/events/an-octoroon
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Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles, United States
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