![]() ![]() Their parents abandoned them many years ago, a fact that haunts them throughout the drama. Booth, meanwhile, shoplifts and dreams of running a three-card monte game on the street like his brother used to do, all with the goal of impressing the girl of his dreams. Even though he is underpaid - in part because of his race - he clings to the job, fearing that he will be replaced by a wax dummy. ![]() ![]() Lincoln works in an arcade, dressing in whiteface as his namesake, pretending to watch his final play as customers shoot cap guns at him. "Topdog/Underdog" tells the story of brothers named Lincoln and Booth - their father's idea of a joke. "When we read the play on the first day of rehearsal, I had the feeling like, 'Wow, who wrote this? This is a really good play.' " When playwright Suzan-Lori Parks signed on to direct her own Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Topdog/Underdog" for the first time with Two River Theatre Company, the 2002 work felt completely new. ![]()
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