{"product_id":"an-octoroon","title":"Octoroon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'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?\"'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJudge 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBranden Jacobs-Jenkins' exhilarating play, \u003cem\u003eAn Octoroon\u003c\/em\u003e, draws on Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama \u003cem\u003eThe Octoroon \u003c\/em\u003eto explore issues about race and identity in America today\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Octoroon\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eGloria\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAn Octoroon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32101461459027,"sku":"9781848426412","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781848426412.jpg?v=1777843824","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/an-octoroon","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}