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Original Title:	Topdog/Underdog
ISBN:	1559362014 (ISBN13: 9781559362016)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2002)

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 4880 Users | 167 Reviews

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Title	:	Topdog/Underdog
Author	:	Suzan-Lori Parks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	December 2001 by Theatre Communications Group (first published June 1st 2001)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Theatre. Fiction

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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.

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The latest entry in my personal Pulitzer challenge is Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks, the 2002 winner for drama. In what will be an abbreviated review during this holiday week, I thought that Parks was gutsy in her writing, which ended up earning her accolades. I am sure the acting on stage starring Don Cheadle and Jeremy Wright was even better than the script, which I rated 3.5 stars. The acting most likely would have earned this another half star at least. Here is what I have gleaned from

Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks, premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in 2001 and opened on Broadway the following year. In 2002, the play earned Parks the distinction of becoming the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Parks won a MacArthur Genius Grant the same year. Like most of Parkss plays, such as The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire Universe (1990), Venus (1996), and Father Comes Home From the War, Parts 1, 2, & 3 (2015), Topdog/Underdog

Dark and wonderful in its wordplay and musings, Topdog/Underdog features two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, on a collision course because of the sins of the previous generation, and I just cannot imagine what it must have been like to see Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright perform this amazing work. There's a lot to chew on about violence, family, legacy, and more, but I keep coming back to Parks's words and the back and forth. Great stuff.

One of the most over-rated plays I've ever seen or read.

well that's the last time I will follow a good reads suggestion. Why did this win a Pulitzer?

2.5 stars. Ooof. BRUTAL. Good but brutal. you know how sometimes you can recognize something is of good quality, but you still dont personally like it? I feel like thats me with this play. I definitely see why it won a Pulitzer. Its a good play, well written, good structure, everything, which would make it more 3-star material, but its not quite for me, making it more of a 2-star affair. A really well done play though.

love this play,great story, and amazing to see it live again and again, a story that is illuminated even brighter by interpretation of director and actors in each production, it's like a story that's never the same whenever you see it!