Appropriate Returns to D.C., Wiser and Heavier with Age

Appropriate Returns to D.C., Wiser and Heavier with Age

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate already feels like a modern classic. The play follows the Lafayettes as they clean out their Arkansas plantation home following the death of the family’s patriarch. There the Lafayettes discover an album of lynching photographs, which leads to heated arguments over their shared histories.  Appropriate was first produced in 2013, and divided critics the following year when it arrived in New York. Yet Appropriat…