VIDEO: Go Behind the Scenes of AN OCTOROON at Artists Rep

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Artists Repertory Theatre launches its 2017/18 season with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' provocative An Octoroon. An incendiary satire, this bold start to their 35th theatre season is co-directed by Lava Alapai and Artistic Director Dámaso Rodríguez. An Octoroon is currently in previews for an opening tomorrow, September 9, and the play runs through October 1 on the Alder Stage. BroadwayWorld has a look behind the scenes in the video!

An Octoroon is a raucously irreverent Gone with the Wind meets Looney Tunes mash-up that The New York Times calls "...this decade's most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today." Riffing off the 19th Century hit The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault, Jacobs-Jenkins offers a brazen, metatheatrical melodrama that twists a funhouse world of larger-than-life stereotypes into blistering social commentary. It's gasp-inducing satire from one of America's most thrilling writers.

A shocking comedy that won the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New Play, written by MacArthur Genius Grant-winning playwright Jacobs-Jenkins, Artists Rep's production features Resident Artists Michael Mendelson, John San Nicolas and Ayanna Berkshire with Alex Ramirez de Cruz, Kailey Rhodes, Andrea Vernae, Josie Seid and Jimmy Garcia. The design team includes Tal Sanders (Set Design), Wanda Walden (Costume Design), Blanca Forzán (Light Design), Phil Johnson (Sound Design), Mary McDonald-Lewis (Voice & Text Director) along with Pancho Savery, Artists Rep Board Member and Reed College Professor of English and Humanities, serving as Dramaturg.

For tickets and more information, visit artistsrep.org.

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