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An Octoroon at The Wilma Theater

Dates: (3/16/2016 - 4/10/2016 )

Theatre:

The Wilma Theater


265 South Broad Street
Philadelphia,PA

Phone: 2155467824

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; dir: Joanna Settle.

A world-premiere, old-fashioned, meta-melodrama with Humor! Feelings! Live Music! Wigs! Sensation Scenes! Slave Auctions! Exploding Steamboats! Photography! And More!

Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful “octoroon.” But, the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans — for both Terrebonne and Zoe.



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