The Abbey Theatre production of ‘An Octoroon’ by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has opened in Dublin to outstanding reviews.
Umi Myers plays Zoe, the subject of the titular term.
‘Directed by Anthony Simpson Pike, the radical reboot of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault’s 1859 play remixes the original storyline into a bigger, wilder, more subversive version’.
Irish Times – *****
‘Theatre’s past crimes rewritten as a magnificent masterpiece’