An octoroon
By: by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Contributors: Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780822232261
Subjects: Drama; Slavery; Plantation life
Description: "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. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own."--From the publisher.
Notes: Cast: 10M, 5W (doubling)

Text in English.

Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play