Topdog underdog theatre5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Its soul is nourished by the sad, shared loneliness and disappointment of this Black latter-day Booth and Lincoln, so named by their long-vanished father.”– Peter Marks, The Washington Post ![]() But the play is a more complicated and heartbreaking work. “ TOPDOG/UNDERDOG explores the multiple layers of sibling competition and intimacy - all that love wrapped in hate wrapped in love. ![]() Both a vivid, present-tense family portrait and an endlessly reverberating allegory, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG plies the fine theatrical art of deception to convey the dangers of role-playing in a society in which race is a performance and prison.”– Ben Brantley, The New York Times “TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is as exciting as any new play from a young American since Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Her voice is both idiosyncratic and eerily familiar, one of few in the popular theatre to fully exploit the power of spoken Black English.”- Hilton Als, The New Yorker “ A writer who crosses cultural boundaries, as well as social ones, she has had her work produced everywhere, from the smallest avant-garde stages to Broadway. She is an original whose fierce intelligence, and fearless approach to craft, subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh. “Suzan-Lori Parks is a remarkable playwright. Strictly Limited Engagement on Broadway This Fall ![]() The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece Returns to Broadway ![]()
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