"Appropriate" Reformulates the Race Card
The two previous plays by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that I've seen" Neighbors and The Octoroon: An Adaptation of the Octoroon Based on the Octoroon"featured black actors wearing black face and portraying stereotypical characters like Sambo, Topsy, Mammy and a tragic (is there any other kind) mulatto. But all the characters are white in Appropriate, Jacobs-Jenkins' new play that opened in The Griffin theater at The …