Topdog/underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
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Editions of Topdog/underdog
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Dramatist's Play Service |
Date 2004 |
Price $8.07 |
 NEW |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Theatre Communications Group |
Date 2002 |
Price $4.99 |
Very Good |
Publisher Notes
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, forettling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
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"[A] thrilling comic drama....The play...vibrates with the clamor of big ideas, audaciously and exuberantly expressed. Like INVISABLE MAN Ralph Ellison's landmark novel of 1952, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG considers nothing less than the existential traps of being African-American and male in the United States, the masks that wear the men as well as vice versa...Ms. Parks demonstrates that she can shape a captivating narrative without sacrificing her high thematic ambitions. She even incorporates one of the more far-fetched metaphoric devices from her AMERICAN PLAY into TOPDOG--the idea of a black man portraying Abraham Lincoln in an arcade shooting booth--and gets you to accept it without blinking."
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