An Octoroon Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something black: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins puts a new twist on an old American play. Stage Directions; Act I. The Octoroon (Original, Play, Melodrama, Broadway) opened in New York City Dec 5, 1859. Act II. First Performed at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, December, 1859. Kyle Brumley and Neal A. Ghant in An Octoroon. Photo by Casey Gardner Photography. Photo by Casey Gardner Photography. An Octoroon requires a big cast, most of whom play multiple characters. THE OCTOROON. Bell’s own distilled response to the theme of miscegenation in the play seems to have evolved rather quickly. The resulting play is a little hard to follow, but The New York Times theater critics recently named it one of … D ramatis P ersonæ. Act III. So he paid homage his 19th-century predecessor by drastically reworking the Octoroon script, with both himself — and Boucicault — featured as characters. Significantly, the character of Zoe loses the definite article she has in Boucicault’s title to become simply “an octoroon”: one of many rather than a symbol of her race. Word Count: 394. The Octoroon: A Play, in Four Acts TABLE OF CONTENTS. Isake Akanke and Candy McLellan in An Octoroon. Neal A. Ghant in An Octoroon. Thankfully, Artists Rep has filled every supporting role with highly competent actors. Both old and new, An Octoroon gleefully remixes a Victorian melodrama set on a Louisiana plantation into ‘a dazzling deconstruction of racial representation’ (WhatsOnStage). The Octoroon (Revival, Play, Melodrama, Broadway) opened in New York City Jan 27, 1961 and played through Mar 5, 1961. Photo by Casey Gardner Photography. A Play, in FOUR ACTS. Neal A. Ghant and Kylie Brown in An Octoroon. Act IV. Last Reviewed on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Kylie Brown in An Octoroon. Photo by Casey Gardner Photography. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Octoroon or, Life in Louisiana; A Play in Five acts Author: Dion Boucicault Release Date: June 24, 2014 [EBook #46091] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START … Dramatis Personæ; Costumes. The Octoroon debuted in London just several months after the beginning of … In 1859, white Irish playwright Dion Boucicault writes a hit play about America. Today, a black American playwright attempts to do the same. Characters Original Cast