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photo by Noam Galai Alia Chapman and Alex Ubokudom as Grace and Solon September 29- October 29				The Octoroon Boucicault’s masterpiece is the story of a doomed love affair between George Peyton, a young aristocrat of the Old South, and Zoe, the daughter of a white plantation owner and a slave. Their forbidden love flourishes, even as the family that nurtures the two teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. Hope for both the young lovers and the plantation lies in an expected letter from overseas, but the villainous designs of a plantation overseer may ruin all.
	Talkback Schedule:
	October 15		Daniel Gerould ~		Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature and Director of the Martin E. Segal Center at CUNY Graduate Center
			Peter Judd ~		Dramaturg, The Octoroon
	October 22		Alex Roe ~ Melissa Maxwell ~		Director, The Octoroon Director
	October 29		Joseph Lauinger ~		Chair, Literature Division, Sarah Lawrence College
Replete with colorful characters, craven treachery, improbable justice, and an exploding steamship, THE OCTOROON is a fast-paced ride on a melodramatic machine. The play is also a remarkably rich and complex portrait of life in antebellum Louisiana. On its premier, its subversion of Victorian values incited fury on both sides of the conflict over abolition. Today, it is distinctive as a moving portrayal of a society that sows the seeds of its own demise as well as a revealing document of a complicated and shameful era in America's past.
Starring: Arthur Acuna, Alia Chapman, Andrew Clateman, Lee Dobson, Mike Durkin, Sarah Hankins, Michael Hardart, David Lamb, Ray McDavitt, Wendy Merritt, John Rengstorff, Margaret Loesser Robinson, Justin Stevens, Alex Ubokudon and Tryphena Wade*				Directed by: Alex Roe Lighting Design:Erin Laphan Costume Design: Melissa Estro Sound Design: Tasha Guevera Dramaturg: Peter H. Judd
* These Actors and Stage Manager are appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association The Octoroon is an Equity Showcase, approval pending