An Octoroon
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Published for the first time: 1/1/2015
64 pages, Paperback
Genres: Plays, Theatre, Drama, American, School, Read For School, Fiction
Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play.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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