Appropriate at Boston Center for the Arts

Winner of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, Appropriate deals with the hassles of inheritance as one estranged family descends upon a crumbling Arkansan plantation to liquidate their dead patriarch's estate. As the three adult children argue over clutter, debt and their troubled family history, a disturbing discovery among their father's possessions turns up the intensity at the already-uncomfortable reunion. A subversive take on a classic American genre, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate offers a bold, modern look at race and identity. Catch its New England premiere in this SpeakEasy production at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.