“An Octoroon”: A dramaturgical discussion
Through March 8, 2015
Theatre for a New Audience
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place
(between Lafayette Ave. & Fulton St.)
Brooklyn
What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like, “Hey. I’m a slave. Help me?”
In An Octoroon, Judge 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. By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Directed by Sarah Benson
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