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- ISBN 9781848428713
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His other plays include An Octoroon, Gloria, Everybody and War.
