Appropriate (Was sich gehört)

In the organizer's words:

Arkansas, 2011: Three siblings gather at the estate of their recently deceased father: Toni, who dutifully cared for their father; Bo, a Yale graduate and lawyer who now lives with his family in New York; and Frank, whose drug and alcohol escapades have always been a burden on the family. The house is to be auctioned off the very next day, and the prospect of the inheritance further exacerbates the old conflicts between the three of them. Then a photo album suddenly turns up in the house, filled to the brim with pictures of lynchings of non-white people and other acts of racist violence. It sheds new light on their father's political stance and forces the siblings to come to terms with his ideological legacy.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American playwright, MacArthur fellow and this year's Pulitzer Prize winner in the theater category, is one of the most important voices in contemporary US theater. Since his debut "Neighbors" (2010), he has published numerous plays that have premiered on Broadway and elsewhere. At the center of his work is an equally productive and provocative examination of questions of origin, class and identity. With "Appropriate", Jacobs-Jenkins subversively appropriates the traditional genre of the American family drama and takes an unsparing look at historical and contemporary racism in the USA.