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  1. Topdog/Underdog is a play by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered in 2001 off-Broadway in New York City. The next year it opened on Broadway, at the Ambassador Theatre, where it played for several months. In 2002, Parks received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Outer Critics Circle Award for the play; it received other ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Topdog/Underdog is a drama of passion which deals obliquely with class distinctions and racism without asking for judgment. ... (This entire section contains 1548 words.)

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  5. This study guide for Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog offers summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.

  6. Nov 21, 2023 · Topdog/Underdog is the Pulitzer Prize award-winning play by Suzan-Lori Parks that ran for several months on Broadway in 2002 and in the West End in London. The show focuses on two brothers named ...

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  8. Scene One. 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 ...

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