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Appropriate
play by Jacobs-Jenkins
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discussed in biography
- In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: Theater and writing career
…in 2014, when his play Appropriate debuted Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in New York. An unsettling family drama, it centers on a group of white siblings as they clean out their childhood home, a former plantation in Arkansas, shortly after their father’s death. The play was well reviewed, and…
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Paulson
- In Sarah Paulson: On the stage
…of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s family drama Appropriate. The New York Times praised her “eye-opening, sinus-clearing performance” as the foul-mouthed, voluble Toni, and in 2024 Paulson earned the Tony Award for best actress in a leading role for the part.
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