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Includes Revised Broadway version ofAppropriate Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers. InAppropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch.An Octoroonis an audacious investigation of theatre and identity, wherein an old play gives way to a startlingly original piece. Also includes the short playI Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...

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"Appropriate: ""A very fine, subversively original new play... Appropriate is, at heart, a ghost story, in the most profound sense."" --Ben Brantley New York Times ""Appropriate is a highly charged and ambitiously sprawling drama... The author finds opportunities to startle us just as we're settling back to enjoy the familiar spectacle of flamboyant family dysfunction... There's no denying that Jacobs-Jenkins is one of the rising stars in the American theater."" --Charles McNulty LA Times ""Appropriate feels entirely original and upsetting in new ways... It asks audiences to understand the hatred, the anger and the pathologies that evolved as a result of our racist past. Eventually the [family's] house buckles under the weight of those emotions, underscoring the metaphor. The effect is visceral, reverberating for days afterward."" --Joanne Ostrow Denver Post An Octoroon: ""A work that is infinitely playful and deeply serious and which dazzlingly questions the nature of theatrical illusion."" --Michael Billington Guardian ""A coruscating comedy of resolved history... Strange as it seems, a work based on a terminally dated play from more than 150 years ago may turn out to be this decade's most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today."" --Ben Brantley New York Times ""An Octoroon is a meta-dramatic meditation and deconstructive masterpiece... Jacobs-Jenkins writes brilliantly about race in America, and the cultural legacy employed in the service of tyranny since the earliest days of this nation."" --Chris Jones Chicago Tribune An Octoroon isn't just an alternative to the irony-free 'black American theater' of Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson; it's part of it--and part of many other things, too, because Jacobs-Jenkins's surrealism grows out of naturalism, the strange circumstances that make us open our mouths, hoping to be heard, even as we forget to listen."" --Hilton Als New Yorker"

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins'splays includeEverybody(Signature Theatre, PulitzerPrize finalist),War(LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater),Gloria(Vineyard Theatre, PulitzerPrize finalist),Appropriate(Signature Theatre, ObieAward),An Octoroon(SohoRep., Obie Award) andNeighbors(The Public Theater). Heis a Residency Five playwrightat Signature Theatre and undercommission from LCT3/LincolnCenter Theater, the ManhattanTheatre Club/SloanInitiative Grant, and theSteppenwolf Theatre Company.His recent honors include the Charles Wintour Awardfor Promising Playwright from theLondon Evening Standard,a London Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright,a MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize forDrama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels InternationalFoundation Theater Award, the Steinberg PlaywrightAward, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Hesits on the board of Soho Rep., and, with Annie Baker, is theAssociate Co-Director of the Hunter College MFA Programin Playwriting, where he is also a Master-Artist-in-Residence.

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