An Octoroon

Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Matt Slaybaugh

May 17 – June 2, 2018
@ Riffe Center Studio Two
77 South High St.

Presented by
Robin & Peter Hersha

Pay What You Want tickets available at the door.

Featuring:
‍Tammy Davis, Jordan Fehr, David J. Glover, Wilma Hatton, Shanelle Marie, Colleen Nerney, Amy Rittberger, Rohaan Unvala, and Kristie K. Vuocolo.

Schedule

‍Thursday, May 17 @ 8pm (w/ talkback)
Friday, May 18 @ 8pm (w/ talkback)
Saturday, May 19 @ 8pm

Friday, May 25 8pm (w/ talkback)
Saturday, May 26 @ 8pm
Sunday, May 27 @ 2pm

Thursday, May 31 @ 8pm (w/ talkback)
Friday, June 1 @ 8pm
Saturday, June 2 @ 8pm

ABOUT THIS PLAY

"This is a play it’s hard to imagine another troupe in town tackling, the manner of work Available Light made their name with, and a triumphant end to a magnificent season."

– Richard Sanford, Columbus Underground
"An Octoroon ranks among the most provocative plays produced by Available Light Theatre, but it’s also one of the funniest."

– Michael Grossberg, Columbus Dispatch

A comedy of unresolved history that dares to ponder the continuing and far-reaching legacy of American slavery.

On the subject of race, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is our country’s most original and illuminating playwright. An Octoroon (the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play) is his unclassifiable adaptation of an 1859 melodrama about illicit interracial love. It is, by turns, riotously funny, gut-wrenchingly disturbing, and always brave. It might just be the most challenging drama that Available Light has ever brought to the stage.

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Photos by Matt Slaybaugh and Alex Abejuela.