Soho Rep's AN OCTOROON to Play Theatre for a New Audience, Feb-March 2015

Soho Rep's AN OCTOROON will run February 14, 2015 - March 8, 2015 at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn). Sarah Benson directs.

According to The New York Times, Amber Gray is returning as lead character 'Zoe'. Further casting to be announced.

AN OCTOROON by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins -- whose plays include Neighbors and Appropriate -- had its world premiere at Soho Rep last season. Jacobs-Jenkins takes on the Irish author, Dion Boucicault's THE OCTOROON. He "uses the plot of the Irish playwright's 1859 antebellum melodrama....as the starting point for a bigger, wilder play" (The New Yorker).

What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like, "Hey. I'm a slave. Help me?" Meta-melodrama with Forbidden Love! Humor! Feelings! Live Music! Wigs! Sensation Scenes! Slave Auctions! Exploding Steamboats! Photography! And More!

For tickets and more information, click here.

Pictured: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, photo by Imogen Heath; and Dion Boucicault, photo courtesy of Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University.