Artswest. Comedy-Drama

Zany adaptation of 19th Century Melodrama

It is difficult to categorize, exactly what Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon, was. First of all, Artswest’s current show, was a “genre bending” adaptation of the 1859 melodrama The Octoroon by Dion Boucinault, a scion of a prominent Protestant family of Huguenot descent from Dublin, who had immigrated to the U.S. The Octoroon, was itself adapted from a novel Quadraroon, written by another Irish Protestant immigrant to the U.S., Thomas Mayne Reid.