{"title":"Books by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781848426412","title":"An Octoroon","description":"'What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,\"Hey. I'm a slave. Help me?\"'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 dastardly M'Closky has other plans – for both Terrebonne and Zoe.   Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' exhilarating play, An Octoroon, draws on Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon to explore issues about race and identity in America today.   The play won an OBIE Award when it was first seen in New York in 2014, and had its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2017. It transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2018.   An Octoroon won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the Most Promising Playwright Award at the Evening Standard Awards in 2017. He was also named Most Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in 2018 for his plays Gloria and An Octoroon.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308331905397,"sku":"9781848426412","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848426412_944b82ce-aa84-434c-b9d0-d7e67f75ee0f.jpg?v=1786029441"},{"product_id":"9781839043505","title":"The Comeuppance","description":"'I guess this is just that age. The Age of Shit Showing Up. The Age of Bad Choices Seeking Their Consequences.'Autumn 2022. A group of friends gathering hours before their high-school reunion.   Twenty years have passed since graduation: some have had children; some have moved to the other side of the world; some have been to war.   But there's another presence in their midst. And as they catch up and reminisce, it only takes a scratch for the scars of those school days to reopen…Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play The Comeuppance is a bitingly comic, strikingly timely satire which asks if we can ever break free from who we used to be. It was first performed at Signature Theatre, New York City, in 2023, and received its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Eric Ting.   'One of this country's most original and illuminating writers' The New York Times on Branden Jacobs-Jenkins","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313020318069,"sku":"9781839043505","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839043505_bde24912-0c7d-4917-874c-e44df19f5897.jpg?v=1786028036"},{"product_id":"9781848428713","title":"Appropriate","description":"‘So I thought, since we can’t do Europe this summer, why don’t the kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? We’re going to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana – all those places – experience some of Daddy’s heritage.’The Lafayette family gather at their late father's home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale. Until, that is, they make a discovery which changes everything.   Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate is a gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with, and a wickedly subversive appropriation of the great American family drama.   Appropriate  premiered Off-Broadway in 2014, and won the Obie Award for Best New American Play. It had its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in August 2019, directed by Ola Ince and featuring Monica Dolan.   This edition also features his short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313069502837,"sku":"9781848428713","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848428713_4dffbe2b-04fa-4c9c-acec-b6bdb17400ce.jpg?v=1786029504"},{"product_id":"gloria-2","title":"Gloria","description":"New York. A city that runs on ambition – and coffee.   In the offices of a notorious Manhattan magazine, ruthless editorial assistants vie for their bosses' jobs and a book deal before they're thirty. But bestselling memoir fodder is thin on the ground, and climbing the career ladder is hard when you're trapped between Starbucks runs, jaded gossip and endless encircling cubicle walls...   Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.   The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2016, and had its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2017.   Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was named Most Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in 2018 for his plays Gloria and An Octoroon.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490377343349,"sku":"9781848426634","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848426634.jpg?v=1786442280"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-branden-jacobs-jenkins.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}