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Is there actual evidence of the birth of Jesus? Was he born in Bethlehem or Nazareth, in December or April? Were the wise men three kings or Babylonian astro...
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In the opening scene of Topdog/Underdog, Booth sits in a squalid apartment and practices playing Three-Card Monte atop a cardboard box propped up by milk crates. He rehearses his banter, imitating phrases he’s heard hustlers use on the street. Interrupting him, his brother Lincoln enters. Lincoln is a former hustler and Three-Card Monte ...
Oct 20, 2022 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Among the most thrilling and jarring gambits in modern theater, up there with the nattering woman half-buried in sand at the top of Beckett’s “Happy Days,” is the scene ...
Jun 1, 2001 · 3.83. 6,623 ratings335 reviews. A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment.
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First and foremost, Topdog/Underdog owes one of its defining conceits—a black man who works as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator—to The America Play, which Suzan-Lori Parks wrote in 1992. In this play, a black gravedigger resembles and adores President Lincoln, so he works as an impersonator, allowing his customers reenact John Wilkes Booth ...
Nov 1, 2022 · Topdog/Underdog is a top American play. Topdog/Underdog first premiered Off Broadway at The Public Theater in 2001 before moving to Broadway in 2002, and it ran there for five months. In 2002, the play earned Parks the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first Black woman to ever win that award. In 2018, the Times ran a list of the 25 best ...
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Lincoln returns home in the fifth scene of Topdog/Underdog to find Booth expecting a visit from his girlfriend. Lincoln has just lost his job at the arcade and squandered the money from his final ...
