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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