Are people anything more than porous vessels susceptible to
influence from— other people? Spirits? And is family really anything more than
mismatched memories or stories that you tell yourself when you feel a certain
way?’ What happens when the spirits of families past haunt you and influence
you right into a catastrophe? You get Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriate, now on stage at Silver
Spring Stage, Directed by Jeff Mikoni. When tensions run high through the
estranged Lafayette family and historical ghosts of all sorts rise up from a
well-buried past in this intensely motived drama by Jacobs-Jenkins,

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