A comedy of unresolved history that dares to ponder the continuing and far-reaching legacy of American slavery.
On the subject of race, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is our country’s most original and illuminating playwright. An Octoroon (the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play) is his unclassifiable adaptation of an 1859 melodrama about illicit interracial love. It is, by turns, riotously funny, gut-wrenchingly disturbing, and always brave. It might just be the most challenging drama that Available Light has ever brought to the stage.
“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. As Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins sees it, that’s still the state of the nation.”
– NY Times
Recommended if You Like: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, Run the Jewels, Django Unchained, Young Jean Lee, We Are Proud to Present…
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Matt Slaybaugh
May 17 – June 2, 2018
Riffe Center Studio Two
77 South High St.
Pay What You Want tickets available at the door.
Featuring:
Tammy Davis, Jordan Fehr, David J. Glover, Wilma Hatton, Shanelle Marie, Colleen Nerney, Amy Rittberger, Rohaan Unvala, and Kristie K. Vuocolo.
Schedule:
Thursday, May 17 @ 8pm (w/ talkback)
Friday, May 18 @ 8pm (w/ talkback)
Saturday, May 19 @ 8pm
Friday, May 25 8pm (w/ talkback)
Saturday, May 26 @ 8pm
Sunday, May 27 @ 2pm
Thursday, May 31 @ 8pm (w/ talkback)
Friday, June 1 @ 8pm
Saturday, June 2 @ 8pm
