Performance Space 122 (Venue Partner)
150 1st Ave
Tickets & Passports: 212.352.3101 | Admin: 212.477.5829
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Photo © Liz Liguori
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- When
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June 26, 2010 – July 3, 2010
Wednesdays–Sundays
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- Price
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$18, $15 (students, seniors), $11 with a PS122 Passport
What's black and white and red all over?
An American playwright (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins of Neighbors at the Public) tackles nineteenth-century Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's infamous melodrama about Americans. (And slavery.) A bombastic, super-theatrical, full-scale investigation of that classic intersection of theatre and identity politics, this play with real actors and real sets and real costumes seeks to understand why New York audiences can't seem to get enough of plays about racism and, um, America?
June 26 - July 3 | Wed - Sat at 8, Sun at 6 | Thursday Night Social: July 1
More about Boucicault's The Octoroon: After immigrating to the United States, Boucicault's The Octoroon premiered at one of New York City's premier theaters in 1859, while the country was on the brink of the Civil War. The Octoroon became immensely popular and created one of the earliest occurrences in American popular theatre where the use of a popular entertainment such as the melodrama, created dialogue and controversy about contemporary societal issues; abolition, African Americans, and slavery in America.
