An Octoroon NYC Reviews and Tickets

96%

(19 Reviews)

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Members say

Absorbing, Ambitious, Intelligent, Profound, Great staging

About the Show

This show, which won the 2014 Obie for Best New American Play, is a modern adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s 'The Octoroon', first presented in New York in 1859,

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.

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Member Reviews (19)

95

Clever, Must see, Masterful, Relevant, Great staging

See it if You want to be challenged and entertained at the same time You want to see a reinterpretation done right

Don't see it if You avoid thinking and talking about race Read more

96

Entertaining, Ambitious, Great staging, Great writing, Original

See it if You want to see a truly great new American play adaptation - a totally insightful, extremely entertaining piece of theater.

Don't see it if You don't love theater.

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Creative team

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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