Appropriate

Director
Sydney Theatre Company
2021

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate - a darkly comic exploration of race relations through the lens of one dysfunctional American family - Appropriate looks at the US South’s buried history through the wildly entertaining yet confronting story of one family. In a crumbling plantation home somewhere in Arkansas, a family comes together to pick through their recently deceased father’s hoard of possessions. What they discover forces them to reconcile with a man they’re desperate to remember and a history they’d rather forget.

Enoch corralled a formidable cast for its Australian premiere at Sydney Theatre Company, including Sam Worthington (Avatar, Somersault) in his first return to the Sydney stage in over twenty years. Joined by Lucy Bell (Griffin Theatre Company’s Splinter, Foxtel’s Fighting Season), Mandy McElhinney (Mosquitoes, Channel 9's Love Child), Johnny Carr (The Real Thing), Brenna Harding (Jumpy, Channel Ten's Puberty Blues), James Fraser (Amazon Prime's The Wilds), Ella Jacob (Rules for Living), Joel Bishop (Harp in The South: Part One and Part Two) and Robbi Morgan in his STC debut.