The Octoroon is a 19th-century melodrama by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault that tells the story of a young woman, Zoe, who passes for white but whose "single drop" of black blood condemns her to being sold as a slave. An Octoroon is a 21st-century refraction of Boucicault's play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, an African-American playwright whose […]

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