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Topdog/Underdog [Paperback]

Suzan-Lori Parks
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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. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.

Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including In the Blood and Venus. She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.

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One of the contemporary American theater's most innovative wordsmiths. Her plays include: Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer-nominee), Fucking A, Venus (OBIE Award), The America Play and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play). She is also a screenwriter, novelist, and MacArthur "Genius" grantee.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Stinky Dog, July 1 2004
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This review is from: Topdog/Underdog (Paperback)
About the only thing I wanted to do after seeing this was demand my money back. This has to be one of the most unimaginative plays I have ever seen. It reminded me of a really bad Saturday night live parody meets Friday part 2 but at the end the writer tried to make it poingnant by adding a death. I don't know why this was even printed. If I was a tree that lost my life to print this play I would come back as a ghost a haunt the publisher till his dying day.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking. Not To Be Missed, Jun 8 2004
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This review is from: Topdog/Underdog (Paperback)
I'll be brief. This play reads well on the page ... it is intense and in-your-face daring. On stage (done well, as I recently saw it the Oregon Shakespeare Festival) it is breathtaking. Amazing. Unique. Startling. Touching. Unexpectedly real & funny. It won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and it is obvious why. It is an "African American play" but these brothers could be any ethnicity and it would still pack the same punch. In other words: Don't let reviews talking about "stereotypes" disuade you from experiencing this amazing work for yourself.
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1.0 out of 5 stars I feel moor stoopid fo redin' dis play, May 7 2004
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Eggplantsurprise (San Dimas, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Topdog/Underdog (Paperback)
I'll make this quick. Saw it. Read it. Hated it. This was required reading for my dramatic theory class last semester and bonus points for having seen it. It was very tense and exhausting in the beginning. More tense and exhausting towards the middle and by the end I was ready to yell out "shoot the Son of a #$%^& already and end this so I can so home and do something productive." In 10 years when people are considering what plays to revive from the past this play will have been long forgotten save for the fact that it was written by an African american writer, which is all fine and great but is not solid ground within itself to merit te rave reviews it has recieved from certain members of the press. All in all I suggest NOT seeing this play or reading it if you value your sanity. It is extreamly mindless and boring.
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