An Octoroon

6 best books like An Octoroon (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins): The Flick, Circle Mirror Transformation, Ruined, Cloud 9, Attempts on Her Life, Indecent

The Flick
AuthorAnnie Baker
ISBN1559364580
In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints...
AuthorAnnie Baker
ISBN0822224453
I read this play, "Circle Mirror Transformation" by Annie Baker today, and I loved it!

The action of the play takes place during a six week acting class held at a community center. The characters consist of a teacher and her four students: a teenage girl, a former actress brushing up on her craft,...
AuthorLynn Nottage
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday

“An intense and gripping new drama . . ....
Cloud 9
AuthorCaryl Churchill
ISBN1559360992
In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, homosexuals—and still finds time for an affair with a widowed neighbor. The same family appears in Act Two 25 years older and back in London, only now it’s 1979.Cloud 9 is about relationships - between...
AuthorMartin Crimp
ISBN0571236693
Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre
by Martin Crimp
Attempts to describe her?
Attempts to destroy her?
Or attempts to destroy herself?
Is Anne the object of violence?
Or its terrifying practitioner?
Martin Crimps 17 scenarios for the theatre, shocking...
Indecent
AuthorPaula Vogel
ISBN1559365471
“Indecent reminds us of the power of art to tell us truths long before we are able to recognize them as such.” — Los Angeles Times

“Indecent sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected,...
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