Love is Blind 1859

The National Theatre announces new information, and recaps its upcoming season.

The National Theatre has announced its May-September 2018 season.

An Octoroon is a person who has one-eighth black heritage. In 1850s Louisiana, that meant they are automatically unclean and, ultimately, a slave. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins radically reimagines Dion Boucicault's 1859 play based upon a tragic and rather melodramatic love story between white plantation owner George and his uncle's illegitimate daughter Zoe. Entwined in this is the apparent financial ruin of the plantation, which leads to a series of racially motivated violent events.

Those nice people from the North who are getting ready to create great theater are beaconing people from CLE to be their guests.