The play will not be for everyone on Chautauqua Institution grounds Saturday’s opening performance was undersold, and a number of patrons walked out, including two irate ladies who made a noisy exit during the prologue, when the actors playing the two playwrights let loose a string of expletives/F-bombs. And since An Octoroon is receiving a very entertaining production at Chautauqua Theater Company through July 8, now is a very good time to see it. The resulting play is a little hard to follow, but The New York Times theater critics recently named it one of the top 25 plays of the past 25 years. So he paid homage his 19th-century predecessor by drastically reworking the Octoroon script, with both himself - and Boucicault - featured as characters. MacArthur genius playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a big fan of Boucicault, whose most famous play is probably The London Assurance.
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