An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

8:00 p.m. Wed.-Sat.: 2:00 p.m. Sun.

Greer Garson Theater – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd

$17 for adults, $13 for seniors, $11 for students, faculty and staff

Directed by: Kara-Lynn Vaeni

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. Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for “Best New American Play,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ blistering satire forces us to face what’s changed and what hasn’t in our country’s fraught history of race relations.

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