"The Octoroon" tells the late of when In the deep south of 1850's USA, an octoroon is given her freedom by her white father but is later bought as a slave by the evil Jacob McCloskey. Advertisement ...

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and to recognize none below the grade of octoroon as eligible to any office whatever under the Federal Government? And has not Chief Justice TANEY been forced, by fear of premature death and ...

With his biting racial satire An Octoroon (2014), American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins announced himself as a vital new voice in contemporary drama. His work examines heritage, legacy and ...

The National Theatre’s 2018 production of An Octoroon established Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as a provocative, gifted playwright. That play stood out for its acid humour and bold meta-theatricality ...

The laws generally define such a person as "having one-eighth or more Negro blood" or as an "octoroon." The other definition of Negro is used in at least six states: a Negro is any person who has ...

Those quadroon and octoroon gentlemen of New Orleans knew it, who said to General Butler with so much passion; "We care not on which side we fight; we will fight as long as we can, and spend all ...

Jenkins, Brooklyn-based playwright, producer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the featured guest at ND's 2024 Duffy ...

From the boundary-pushing, Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon), this electrifying comedy is a meditation on impermanence, nostalgia, and isolation. Anticipating ...

American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins triply wowed audiences over here between 2017 and 2019 with his brilliantly postmodern race satire An Octoroon, office comedy Gloria (a Pulitzer finalist ...