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...Like Aleshea Harris’s Is God Is, Parks’s White Noise asks “what if” and then unpacks that onstage; like Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, it uses live theatre to confront...
...There’s also a need, she says, for plays from white writers that deal honestly with the legacy of inequality: “I long for white writers to wrestle with whiteness on stage....
...Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate makes dazzling use of that fact....
...It draws attention to the fact that many audiences are still predominantly white and asks what that means for the representation of black lives onstage....
...Next on Ince’s agenda is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, which opens next month at the Donmar Warehouse....
...He’s an actor portraying a black playwright (BJJ) based on the actual author, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins....
...With the exception of Joanne’s white husband, Malcolm (Reggie Gowland), the characters are all black or mixed race (a label subjected to withering scorn by Tate)....
...Photograph: Branden Camp...
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