An Octoroon

Fountain Theatre
5060 Fountain Avenue Hollywood

An Octoroon is a radical, incendiary and subversively funny riff on Dion Boucicault's once-popular 1859 mustache-twirling melodrama set on a Louisiana plantation. A spectacular collision of the antebellum South and 21st-century cultural politics, An Octoroon twists a funhouse world of larger-than-life stereotypes into blistering social commentary to create a gasp-inducing satire.

Thru - Sep 19, 2021

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Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...It's no wonder that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' brilliant adaptation of Dion Boucicault's 1895 suspenseful melodrama The Octoroon is eight times better and more exciting than any other offering on America's stages. It speaks to the current conversation of race in America while presenting a rather unknown actual nineteenth-century play that is rife with racism. It underscores issues from today's newspapers without being didactic. While the Fountain Theatre's production of An Octoroon can be curiously flat at times, this do-not-miss play is also wildly entertaining, unique, sharp, funny, and adventurous."

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- Tony Frankel

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain's newly constructed open air stage."

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- Steven Stanley

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Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

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