Appropriate
Seattle Rep presents "Appropriate" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins from April 9 to May 10, 2026. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films and television shows to enhance your experience of the show.
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How the Word Is Passed
Drawing on his personal history as a Black man growing up in New Orleans, Smith's thoughtful and moving work interrogates the legacy of Confederate monuments and other memorials to slavery in the contemporary United States.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Vacation Plantation
This eye-opening documentary examines the modern plantation tourism industry in the Southern United States -- and how these sites tend to gloss over the racist and violent histories of such "tourist attractions."
Format: Streaming Video
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On Lynchings
Born into slavery, Ida B. Wells-Barnett became an investigative journalist and a tireless crusader against the widespread, horrific lynchings of Black men in the Jim Crow South. This volume collects her major works on the subject.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Seattle Rep's "Appropriate" website
When the Lafayettes descend upon their late father’s crumbling plantation home for an estate sale, they unearth an appalling secret that pits them against one another. Through a cascading series of revelations, biting humor boils over into bruising conflict, and no one will escape this family gathering unscathed. Smart, incendiary, and never before produced in Seattle, this 2024 Tony Award winner by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Everybody, An Octoroon) depicts a Southern family wrestling with a destructive inheritance as they consider the legacy they want to leave for the next generation.