{"product_id":"9780822232261","title":"An Octoroon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJudge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M'Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Octoroon\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to laugh loudly and easily at how naïve the old stereotypes now seem, until nothing seems funny at all…Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins is using a genre associated with exclamation points to ask questions not only about the portrayal of race in America but also about the inadequate means we have for such portrayals. I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to reveal that this show ends—spectacularly and hauntingly—with all of us in the dark.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Super oxygenating—despite moments of palpable fear and disquiet, we leave feeling somehow healthier, as though the theater has given us a violent shake and a pep talk.\"—\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e (New York)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] wildly imaginative new work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. \u003ci\u003eAn Octoroon\u003c\/i\u003e simultaneously gives us [Dion Boucicault's] great melodrama and its contemporary reverberations. [The play] might induce vertigo, but it insists that making theater can be the best way to talk back to history.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008068436208,"sku":"9780822232261","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822232261_p0.jpg?v=1763745552","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822232261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}