APPROPRIATE

APPROPRIATE

So I thought, since we can’t do Europe this summer, why don’t the kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? We’re going to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana – all those places – experience some of Daddy’s heritage.

The Lafayette family gather at their late father’s home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale.

Until, that is, they make a discovery which changes everything.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins takes on the rich tradition of American family drama in his gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with. Ola Ince directs APPROPRIATE in its UK premiere at the Donmar.

This production began at the Donmar Warehouse on 16 August 2019. New York Premiere originally produced by Signature Theatre, New York City

World premiere production in the 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theater of Louisville and at the Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL

– Chay Yew, Artistic Director/Chris Mannelli, Interim Managing Director.

Recipient of the Sundance Institute Tennessee Williams Award, Appropriate was developed, in part, at the 2011 Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at UCross Foundation and at the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with the Sundance Institute | Time Warner Fellowship Program.

Appropriate was developed, in part, at Vineyard Arts Project

– Ashley Melone, Founder and Artistic Director.