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The Area Stage Company announces its first production of 2017-18 season, the Florida premiere of An Octoroon by Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins who takes the plot of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 antebellum melodrama, The Octoroon, and smashes it with a 21st-century sensibility. Presented through the eyes of the onstage playwright BJJ, this pre-Civil War tale set in the Deep South tells of a slave owner’s affections for a woman whose blood is one-eighth Black. Directed by John Rodaz (Carbonell Award) and designed by Giancarlo Rodaz (Carbonell Award nomination) this production will feature choreography and original music to create a theatrical event that is equally hilarious and moving, subversive and provocative.

Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play.

“AN OCTOROON invites us to laugh loudly and easily at how naïve the old stereotypes now seem, until nothing seems funny at all…—spectacularly and hauntingly—with all of us in the dark. This decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.”—The New York Times.

SEPTEMBER 17th – OCTOBER 8th, 2017

FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS AT 7:30PM

SUNDAYS AT 5:00PM

Previews will be held Thursday September 14th – Saturday September 16th at 7:30pm

Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage aux Folles remains one of the all-time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the “family business”: Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the “star” performer “Zaza”. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as “normal” when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results.

Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage aux Folles remains one of the all-time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the “family business”: Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the “star” performer “Zaza”. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as “normal” when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results.

The Area Stage Company announces its first production of 2017-18 season, the Florida premiere of An Octoroon by Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins who takes the plot of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 antebellum melodrama, The Octoroon, and smashes it with a 21st-century sensibility. Presented through the eyes of the onstage playwright BJJ, this pre-Civil War tale set in the Deep South tells of a slave owner’s affections for a woman whose blood is one-eighth Black. Directed by John Rodaz (Carbonell Award) and designed by Giancarlo Rodaz (Carbonell Award nomination) this production will feature choreography and original music to create a theatrical event that is equally hilarious and moving, subversive and provocative.

Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play.

“AN OCTOROON invites us to laugh loudly and easily at how naïve the old stereotypes now seem, until nothing seems funny at all…—spectacularly and hauntingly—with all of us in the dark. This decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.”—The New York Times.

SEPTEMBER 17th – OCTOBER 8th, 2017

FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS AT 7:30PM

SUNDAYS AT 5:00PM

Previews will be held Thursday September 14th – Saturday September 16th at 7:30pm

Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage aux Folles remains one of the all-time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the “family business”: Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the “star” performer “Zaza”. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as “normal” when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results.

Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage aux Folles remains one of the all-time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the “family business”: Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the “star” performer “Zaza”. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as “normal” when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results.

The Underpants

Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage aux Folles remains one of the all-time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the “family business”: Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the “star” performer “Zaza”. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as “normal” when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results.

Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage aux Folles remains one of the all-time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the “family business”: Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the “star” performer “Zaza”. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as “normal” when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results.

Much revived, most recently in a 2010 production transferred to Broadway from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, La Cage aux Folles remains one of the all-time biggest hits, adding new dimension to the boulevard comedy. After twenty years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-or-worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted, right-wing politician. Further complicating the situation is the “family business”: Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the “star” performer “Zaza”. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as “normal” when he meets the family of the bride-to-be. But Albin has other plans, with hilarious results.