num_pages: 72
description: 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.
language: English
title: Topdog/Underdog - Acting Edition
titlecomplete: Topdog/Underdog - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
genres: Theatre, Drama, College, Plays, Race, African American, Read For School, School, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 6198
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.