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Topdog/underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (2002, Paperback) 
Topdog/underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (2002, Paperback)

 
Topdog/underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (2002, Paperback)

Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1559362014
ISBN-13: 9781559362016
Product ID: EPID1893217
Description: Identity and family are explored when two brothers are predisposed to sibling rivalry after being christened "Lincoln" and "Booth."
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Synopsis
Identity and family are explored when two brothers are predisposed to sibling rivalry after being christened "Lincoln" and "Booth."

Details
Publication Date:2002-02-01

Size
Length:109 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:5.6 oz

Publisher's Note
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.

Industry Reviews
"[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."
New York Times - Ben Brantley (04/08/2002)

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