Hello Rossier students,
Faculty affiliate of the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice Professor Anita Dashiell-Sparks is directing An Octoroon written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins for USC School of Dramatic Arts this weekend at the McClintock Theatre on campus. Professor Darnell Cole has 9 pre-paid tickets available to offer to students for the show on Saturday, September 30, at 2:30 p.m.
Please sign up on this Google spreadsheet if you are interested in attending – first come, first serve: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fjQ6tDL01NwoGEPn6TjAfnosCrqnXYupmEOKGkw9mbY/edit?usp=sharing. If you are the first 9 to sign up on this google spreadsheet, you are confirmed a spot and you can pick up your tickets from Dr. Cole right before the play at the theater. He will be arriving earlier to the theater.
Information on the play:
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a provocative new voice in American theatre, brings a radical, incendiary and subversively funny riff on Dion Boucicault’s once-popular 1859 mustache-twirling melodrama. This Obie Award-winning hall of mirrors skewers outdated sensibilities about race and narrative with acerbic humor and spectacular theatricality. An Octoroon is “this decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.” – The New York Times
Thank you so much for your time!
Best,
Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice
USC Rossier School of Education, WPH 1003
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