The cast includes Amber Gray (Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812), Maechi Aharanwa (Facing Our Truth - Night Vision), Pascale Armand (), Danielle Davenport (All's Well That Ends Well), (), Austin Smith (Julliard School), Haynes Thigpen () and Mary Wiseman (An Octoroon).
Directed by Sarah Benson, artistic director at Soho Rep, performances will continue through March 8 at TFNA's Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
Jacobs-Jenkins' award-winning play, about love, race and slavery in the American South, is based on 's 1859 melodrama about a love affair between the white heir to a Louisiana plantation and a woman who is one-eighth black (an octoroon). According to press notes, "In An Octoroon, Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful 'octoroon.' But, the evil overseer M'Closky has other plans鈥攆or both Terrebonne and Zoe."
The creative team returns, including Mimi Lien (sets), Wade Laboissonniere (costumes), Matt Frey (lights), Matt Tierney (sound), Jeff Sugg (projections), Cookie Jordan (wigs and makeup), C茅sar Alvarez (songs, music, & music director), David Brimmer (fight director), David Neumann (choreography) and J. Noah Mease (props).
Tickets for An Octoroon are available online by visiting or by calling (866) 811-4111. The Polonsky Shakespeare Center is located at 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn.
