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Appropriate
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- Book Synopsis
- 'So I thought, since we can't do Europe this summer, why don't the kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? We're going to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana - all those places - experience some of Daddy's heritage.' The Lafayette family gather at their late father's home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale. Until, that is, they make a discovery which changes everything. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate is a gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with, and a wickedly subversive appropriation of the great American family drama. Appropriate premiered Off-Broadway in 2014, and won the Obie Award for Best New American Play. It had its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in August 2019, directed by Ola Ince and featuring Monica Dolan. This edition also features his short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...
- About The Author
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. His plays include: Purpose (Steppenwolf, Chicago, 2024; Broadway, 2025; winner of the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre, Off-Broadway, 2023; Almeida Theatre, London, 2024); Gloria (Off-Broadway, 2015; Hampstead Theatre, 2017; a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Appropriate (Off-Broadway, 2014; Donmar Warehouse, 2019; winner of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, jointly with his play An Octoroon); An Octoroon (New York, 2014; Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, 2017; National Theatre, London, 2018); Everybody (Signature Theatre); War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater) and Neighbors (The Public Theater). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his recent honors include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the Tennessee Williams Award.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781848428713
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books, (27 August 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 116
- Weight
- 116 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 9 mm
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