"Appropriate" at the Olney Theater

March 18 - April 19 2026

MoCoLMP is pleased to have been included in the production of the play, "Appropriate," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Olney Theater notes:

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ searing satire of a family digging through their recently deceased patriarch’s crumbling estate is both gut-splittingly funny and shocking in its confrontation of conveniently forgotten family history. DC-luminaries Kimberly Gilbert (Angels in America) and Cody Nickell (Ink) star as siblings battling over the possession and meaning of their father’s dark patrimony. As the rest of the family descends on the ancestral property in rural Arkansas, old rivalries and grudges are eclipsed by the moral weight of what they find. Staged in our black box Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab, this will be a unique staging of one of the most important American plays of the past 15 years.

MoCoLMP members, Alexa Fraser, and Chuck Copeland were warmly received by the actors and production team of the play in February to talk about our work.

Sunday, March 22, 2026, 4–4:45 p.m. Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre LabFree

After the matinee of Appropriate, join the Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project (MoCoLMP) for a post-show discussion connecting the play’s themes to local history and community action. Featuring speakers Derrick Tabor and Holly Syrrakos, the conversation explores how reckoning with the past can inspire meaningful engagement today—and offers concrete ways to get involved in remembrance, dialogue, and justice-focused work right here in Montgomery County.

There will also be MoCoLMP facilitators during the post-show discussions April 4, 11 and 18.

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