"AN OCTOROON invites us to laugh loudly and easily at how naïve the old stereotypes now seem, until nothing seems funny at all. Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins is using a genre associated with exclamation points to ask questions not only about the portrayal of race in America but also about the inadequate means we have for such portrayals. I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to reveal that this show ends--spectacularly and hauntingly--with all of us in the dark." - The New York Times "Super oxygenating--despite moments of palpable fear and disquiet, we leave feeling somehow healthier, as though the theater has given us a violent shake and a pep talk." - Time Out New York.
An Octoroon