Bøker av Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

A bitingly comic, strikingly timely satire for the stage, which asks if we can ever break free from the people we used to be.

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. A gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with, and a wickedly subversive appropriation of the great American family drama.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' exhilarating play, drawing on Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon, won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It had its UK premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond in 2017, transferring to the National Theatre, London in 2018.

In the offices of a notorious Manhattan magazine, a group of ruthless editorial assistants vie for their bosses' jobs and a book deal before they're thirty. But trapped between Starbucks runs, jaded gossip and endless cubicle walls, best-selling memoir fodder is thin on the ground - that is until inspiration arrives with a bang...