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Review: The Gamm's AN OCTOROON Is Not To Be Missed
(2022)
Abstract
Rhode Island audiences have become familiar with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins over the years through productions of Appropriate (Trinity Rep, 2016) and Gloria (Gamm, 2018), and even though those two plays are very different, the reliable element of Jacobs-Jenkins' work is that you can expect to have at least one (usually more) shocking moment. In AN OCTOROON, Jacobs-Jenkins seems to delight in taking audiences on a shock-and-awe tour through America's history and present. In turns horrifying and hilarious, this work manages to elicit almost every emotion a human being can feel as it burrows into your psyche. Because there is so much intense content, this is a production that has potential to go very wrong in less capable hands. Thankfully, through the skillful and thoughtful direction of Joe Wilson Jr., and an exceptional cast, this production manages to walk the line necessary to entertain and provoke.
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 2, 2022
Citation Information
Andria Tieman. "Review: The Gamm's AN OCTOROON Is Not To Be Missed" (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andria-tieman/195/