- African/Aboriginal and three-quarters
European ancestry.
Similar classifications were
octoroon for one-eighth
black (Latin root octo-,
means "eight") and
quintroon for...
- The
Octoroon is a play by Dion
Boucicault that
opened in 1859 at The
Winter Garden Theatre, New York City.
Extremely po****r, the play was kept running...
- An
Octoroon is a play
written by
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It is an
adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The
Octoroon,
which premiered in 1859. Jacobs-Jenkins...
-
Abbey Theatre production of
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins'
stage adaptation of An
Octoroon. He also
appeared in Good **** at the
Dublin Theatre Festival.
Around this...
- 2023 and
earned him his
first Tony Award. His
additional plays include An
Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was
named a
MacArthur Fellow in 2016. Jacobs-Jenkins...
-
Television Awards. That same year, she
starred as
Minnie in the play An
Octoroon at the
Orange Tree
Theatre in Richmond. For her performance, she was nominated...
- the
Octoroon Mistress is a
ghost tale
about the
haunting of a
house on 734
Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The
haunting of the
Octoroon House...
- one who is
neither completely "black" nor "white". The
female "tragic
octoroon" was a
stock character of
abolitionist literature: a light-skinned woman...
-
African American born into slavery. Her
slave narrative,
Louisa Picquet, the
Octoroon, or,
Inside Views of
Southern Domestic Life, was
published in 1861.The...
-
reprised her
leading role as Zoe in An
Octoroon at Soho
Repertory Theatre An
Octoroon utilized the plot of The
Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama, but
turned it into...
