An Octoroon

' What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody's house and be like, "Hey I am a slave, help me ? "'

Winner of the Obie Award, twice runner up finalist for The Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Branden Jacob-Jenkins audacious darkly hilarious satire An Octoroon draws on the Dion Boucicault 's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon as a starting point to explore importance of race, identity and representation.

The play within a play resolves around a story of a Louisiana slave plantation, Terrebone which is in financial ruins. Threatened with falling into the wrong hands unless George Peyton, heir apparent, returning from Europe marries rich heiress, Dora. But he has fallen in love with Zoe, an " octoroon " but can he save her from the clutches of ruthless, nasty M'Closky whom has other plans for and Terrebone?

MST are delighted to stage the regional premiere of An Octoroon.. A huge hit at the Royal National Theatre and more recently The Abbey theatre, Dublin.

" A wildly imaginative new work " - Village Voice

" Bizarrely brilliant...a work that is infinitely playful and deeply serious which dazzling questions the nature of theatrical illusion .." The Guardian

An Octoroon pushes the audience to confront unpleasant historical legacies - to think about the implications the past has for the present, to laugh and even enjoy themselves as they did so.

Content Warnings: The performance contains destressing historic violent racial imagery and racist language that viewers may find upsetting. Scenes contain racial stereotyping, racism, misogyny, assault, violence & blood.

Credits

Director: DEBORAH YHIP

Lighting: DOUGLAS KUHRT

Design: LARA BOOTH

Sound Design: GARION FRITH

MD: JUWON OGUNGBE