The Comeuppance by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at McCarter Theatre Center

Dates/Times: April 3, 4 & 10 at 8 p.m. and April 11 at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

In the fall of 2022, on the eve of their 20th high school reunion, a self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” reconnects on the porch of a house in their old neighborhood in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Reminiscing about their high school years and recent pasts (including Covid-19, 9/11, and Columbine) and fueled by drinking and smoking pot, the friends discover competing, recollected versions of their teenage years and find themselves facing a reckoning with the memories of who they were, and are, as an undeniable element of the future viscerally looms before them. This hauntingly surreal play by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Princeton alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ’06 (An Octoroon, Appropriate, Gloria) garnered a New York Times Critic’s Pick and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.

Directed by Princeton Lecturer in Theater Vivia Font

Accessibility: The Berlind Theatre is an accessible venue with an assistive listening system. The April 10 performance will be open-captioned. Guests in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu