The author of this play used nonsense terms like “Weal Omenee” and “Ninemoosha” while playing a character in it who discovers the body of Paul, whose murder was captured on an early photography apparatus. An adaptation of this play featured its playwright performing slapstick while dressed as Br’er Rabbit. Agnes Robertson debuted a role in this play in which she tells George that “seven bright drops” gave her “love like yours—hope like yours.” In this play set on a (*) plantation in Terrebonne, Louisiana, a sensationalist auction scene ends with the re-enslavement of Zoe, who exemplifies the “tragic mulatta” trope. Blackface, whiteface, and redface were used in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 reworking of this play. For 10 points, name this antebellum melodrama by Dion Boucicault titled for a mixed-race woman. ■END■
ANSWER: The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana [accept An Octoroon] (Boucicault originally played the Native American character Wahnotee; his wife Agnes Robertson originally played Zoe.)
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