 Event |
An Octoroon
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| Venue |
Bille Brown Studio, Brisbane, QLD |
| Umbrella Event |
Brisbane Festival 2017 |
| First Date |
16 September 2017 |
| Last Date |
8 October 2017 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
An Octoroon can trace its roots back to an 1856 novel, then a stage melodrama by crowd-pleasing Irish impresario Dion Boucicault. When the story of a man who scandalously falls for a slave on his Louisiana plantation premiered in New York in 1859, it helped fan the flame of the American Civil War.
Today – with race still as incendiary a global issue as it was then – dazzling and radical African-American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has torn apart and rebuilt the original text as a towering, immersive and wildly funny theatrical experience like no other.
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| Description Source |
Website |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Text Nationality |
United States of America
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
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| Event Identifier |
126930 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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