Octoroon, Paperback/Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ' exhilarating play, drawing on Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon , won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It had its UK premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond in 2017, transferring to the National Theatre, London in 2018.