Top Dog/Underdog

Playwright: Suzan-Lori Parks

Directed by: Elizabeth Helman

September 20 - October 6, 2013

Starring: Chauncy Thomas* and Reginald Pierre

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Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award.

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks' 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.