Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

‘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...

'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 *

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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781848428713
ISBN 10	1848428715
Title	Appropriate
Author	Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Series	Nhb Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	2019-08-22
Number of pages	112
Prizes	Winner of Obie Award for Best New American Play 2014
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.