Appropriate

'A bracingly clever play, as twisted and pointed as a corkscrew... viciously funny and profoundly unsettling... Jacobs-Jenkins springs many surprises as his drama runs its suspenseful and gripping course... a magnificent achievement'

* WhatsOnStage *

'A provocative family reunion drama from the sublime Branden Jacobs-Jenkins'

* Time Out *

'A stunning act of theatrical subversion... ingenious'

* The Stage *

'An audacious, vividly atmospheric tour de force'

* Evening Standard *

'Exhilarating... Jacob-Jenkins appropriates the classic American family drama with results that are both gravely serious and mordantly funny'

* Guardian *

'A bitterly funny family drama with ghostly overtones that raise genuine goosebumps... an audacious, vividly atmospheric tour de force'

* Evening Standard *

'The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury… makes Appropriate land with the kind of thump you rarely encounter in the theatre'

* Chicago Tribune *

'A highly charged and ambitiously sprawling drama... There's no denying that Jacobs-Jenkins is one of the rising stars in the American theatre'

* LA Times *

'Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's very fine, subversively original new play... He enjoys his quarrelsome characters, and he has achieved the difficult feat of making them all both unlovable and impossible not to identify with... this remarkable and devious play allows us to draw our own parallels with the human sound and fury that fills most of the evening'

-- Ben Brantley * New York Tim