We accept PayPal, Visa & Mastercard
through our secure checkout.
|
Appropriate
Appropriate
|
Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Format: Softcover # of Pages: 82 Pub. Date: 2017 ISBN-10: 0822231913 ISBN-13: 9780822231912 Cast Size: 4 women, 3 men, 1 child
|
About the Play:
Winner
of the 2015 Obie Award for Best New American Play
Appropriate is a full-length drama by Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins. In this searing comic drama, the estranged members of the Lafayette family return to their crumbling Arkansas plantation home to settle the accounts of their recently deceased patriarch. As they sort through a hoarded lifetime of mementos and junk, they discover a gruesome relic that sends them spiraling into a dark history of repressed memories and family secrets. A breakout play from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.
Appropriate is about
family secrets on an Arkansas plantation. Every estranged member of
the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas
homestead to settle the accounts of the newly-dead patriarch. As his
three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and
junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family
history. But after the disturbing discovery of a gruesome Southern
relic among their father's possessions, the reunion takes a turn for
the explosive, unleashing a series of crackling accusations,
repressed fears, and more questions than answers. A challenging play
on race, family, and if it's possible for history to ever stay in the
past.
Appropriate premiered in 2013 at the Actors Theater of
Louisville during the Humana Festival of New American Plays, followed
by regional premieres at
professional theatres across the US, including
Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington
DC), and Signature Theatre (New York, Off-Broadway). The
play was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding
New Off-Broadway Play, and won the 2015 Obie Award for Best New
American Play. Since then it
has been mounted by colleges and community theatres.
Cast: 4 women, 3 men, 1 child
What people say:
"…very fine, subversively
original… [Jacobs-Jenkins] honors the time-tested recipes of those
who have gone before him, combining them into a crafty narrative…
But he also brings a culinary self-consciousness to the mix that
makes you savor the ingredients anew, while pondering why they have
dominated American theater for so long …Appropriate
is piercingly clear, with carefully drawn characters who speak in
crisp and fluid dialogue. [Jacobs-Jenkins] enjoys his quarrelsome
characters, and he has achieved the difficult feat of making them all
both unlovable and impossible not to identify with… remarkable and
devious." — The New York Times
"…prodigiously gifted…
[Branden Jacobs-Jenkins] effortlessly and believably taps into a
white family's dysfunction, infuses the script with unforced,
viperish humor …Appropriate is an uncommonly
deft dramatic and technical achievement." — Entertainment
Weekly
"…an exceptionally brilliant
piece of writing…gut-punchingly honest work." — Time
Out (Chicago)
"…biliously
funny…Jacobs-Jenkins [is] a witty provocateur and a dramatist on
whom to keep your eye…What distinguishes [Appropriate]
is the playwright's gift for drawing his characters into an
escalating conflict and sustaining, with humor and craft, our
curiosity about how they digest the terrible information thrown at
them." — The Washington Post
About the Playwright:
Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins is an African-American playwright. He is a
two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a two-time Obie Award winner, a
MacArthur "Genius Grant" Award recipient, and was awarded
the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, among many
other honours.
|
|
|
|