Topdog/Underdog

Drama

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, this darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is 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.