Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays
<p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">“The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury…makes <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Appropriate</span></em> land with the kind of thump you rarely encounter in the theater.†—<em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Chicago Tribune</span></em></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">“So energetic, funny, and entertainingly demented, you can’t look away.†—<em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">New York</span></em> on <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">An Octoroon</span></em></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">In <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Appropriate</span></em>, 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. <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">An Octoroon</span></em> is an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece.</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Also includes the short play <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...</span></em></span></p>