An octoroon / Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

78 pages ; 20 cm.

"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."--From the publisher.

Prologue; 5 scenes ; 4m, 4w.

Winner of th e2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play.

9781848426412

D J171oc 2017