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Appropriate Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Appropriate By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Summary

A gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with.

Appropriate Summary

Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

So I thought, since we cant do Europe this summer, why dont the kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? Were going to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana all those places experience some of Daddys 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...

Appropriate Reviews

'A bracingly clever play, as twisted and pointed as a corkscrew... viciously funny and profoundly unsettling... Jacobs-Jenkins springs many surprises as his drama runs its suspenseful and gripping course... a magnificent achievement'

* WhatsOnStage *

'A provocative family reunion drama from the sublime Branden Jacobs-Jenkins'

* Time Out *

'A stunning act of theatrical subversion... ingenious'

* The Stage *

'An audacious, vividly atmospheric tour de force'

* Evening Standard *

'Exhilarating... Jacob-Jenkins appropriates the classic American family drama with results that are both gravely serious and mordantly funny'

* Guardian *

'A bitterly funny family drama with ghostly overtones that raise genuine goosebumps... an audacious, vividly atmospheric tour de force'

* Evening Standard *

'The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury makes Appropriate land with the kind of thump you rarely encounter in the theatre'

* Chicago Tribune *

'A highly charged and ambitiously sprawling drama... There's no denying that Jacobs-Jenkins is one of the rising stars in the American theatre'

* LA Times *

'Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's very fine, subversively original new play... He enjoys his quarrelsome characters, and he has achieved the difficult feat of making them all both unlovable and impossible not to identify with... this remarkable and devious play allows us to draw our own parallels with the human sound and fury that fills most of the evening'

-- Ben Brantley * New York Times *

About Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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.

Additional information

NGR9781848428713
9781848428713
1848428715
Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
NHB Modern Plays
New
Paperback
Nick Hern Books
2019-08-22
112
Winner of Obie Award for Best New American Play 2014
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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