Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's "An Octoroon" was met with lusty laughter at the Wilma Theater with its scabrous reimagining of an 1859 minstrel play about slave life on the plantation. One thinks of the epic satire of Swift and the unhinged cheek of Springtime for Hitler. James Ijames saunters onstage in white underwear as BJJ, a struggling black playwright who is fed up with the struggling part, so he tells his therapist, a white woman, who tells him he is probably blocked because he has h...
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's "An Octoroon" was met with lusty laughter at the Wilma Theater with its scabrous reimagining of an 1859 minstrel play about slave life on the plantation. One thinks of the epic satire of Swift and the unhinged cheek of Springtime for Hitler. James Ijames saunters onstage in white underwear as BJJ, a struggling black playwright who is fed up with the struggling part, so he tells his therapist, a white woman, who tells him he is probably blocked because he has h...
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