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Appropriate (Paperback)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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'So I thought, since we can't do Europe this summer, why don't the
kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? We're going
to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana - all those
places - experience some of Daddy's heritage.' The Lafayette family
gather at their late father's home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet
and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale. Until, that
is, they make a discovery which changes everything. Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate is a gripping play about ghosts and the
legacies we are left with, and a wickedly subversive appropriation
of the great American family drama. Appropriate premiered
Off-Broadway in 2014, and won the Obie Award for Best New American
Play. It had its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in
August 2019, directed by Ola Ince and featuring Monica Dolan. This
edition also features his short play I Promise Never Again to Write
Plays About Asians...
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An Octoroon (Paperback)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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R318
R256
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'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?"' 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
dastardly M'Closky has other plans - for both Terrebonne and Zoe.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' exhilarating play, An Octoroon, draws on
Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon to explore issues
about race and identity in America today. The play won an OBIE
Award when it was first seen in New York in 2014, and had its
European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2017. It
transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2018. An Octoroon
won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the Most Promising Playwright Award at
the Evening Standard Awards in 2017. He was also named Most
Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in 2018 for his
plays Gloria and An Octoroon.
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Gloria (Paperback)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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R348
R280
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New York. A city that runs on ambition - and coffee. In the offices
of a notorious Manhattan magazine, ruthless editorial assistants
vie for their bosses' jobs and a book deal before they're thirty.
But bestselling memoir fodder is thin on the ground, and climbing
the career ladder is hard when you're trapped between Starbucks
runs, jaded gossip and endless encircling cubicle walls... Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins's Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about
ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that
matters is selling out to the highest bidder. The play was a
Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2016, and had its UK premiere at
Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2017. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was
named Most Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in
2018 for his plays Gloria and An Octoroon.
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