Everybody (TCG Edition) - by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Paperback)

About the Book

An innovative new play from the award-winning author of Appropriate and An Octoroon.

Book Synopsis

Inspired by the 15th century morality play Everyman, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new work follows Everybody (played by one of five actors selected by lottery at the beginning of each performance) as he or she travels down a road toward life's greatest mystery and confronts the inevitable. An unpredictable and inventive inquiry into the ways we cope with our own mortality.

Review Quotes

Throughout his meteoric career, Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins has made a virtue of his anxieties about identity--social, racial, creative--in meta-theatrical plays that turn traditional forms inside out.
--New York Times

With Everybody, Jacobs-Jenkins has written a play about love--or, rather, a play that shows how impossible it is to write about love--and it fills the heart in a new and unexpected way.
--New Yorker

Provocative and involving...Wildly funny.
--Huffington Post

The play is trenchant, certainly, and often quite moving...Jacobs-Jenkins is a destabilizer, never more so than in Everybody.
-Vulture

-- "New York Times"

About the Author

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' plays include An Octoroon, Neighbors, Appropriate, and War. Gloria was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is a playwright-in-residence at Signature Theatre. He received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for both An Octoroon and Appropriate, the 2015 Steinberg Playwrights Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2016.