Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox!įrom the time that the play starts the storyline is presented fast and furious. While Lori-Parks gives them some moments of joy, as they recall times in their childhood when they worked together, you intensely feel both of their pain and frustration with their lot in life. These brothers take sibling rivalry to a level that boggles the mind and the heart. His younger brother Booth wants to follow in his footsteps and tries his best to practice the card scam. Lincoln used to make his money scamming people with the card game Three-card Monte, but he stopped after tragedy struck. They measure their success by their ability to have a place to live, no matter how poor and drab the accommodation, to get to eat and to budget whatever money they make to pay for the bare necessities. What happens to Black boys who grow up with only the disadvantages of life? These brothers became hustlers and thieves. They have always needed to feel loved and important and that has not worked out well for either. Through it all they have always had each other, but also carried a great deal of anger and envy. They have known fear, hunger, desperation. They have not known love, security, support in their home lives, but instead experienced abandonment by both their parents, betrayal, chaos. These are two Black men for whom life dealt terrible cards. Lori-Parks tells the story of two Black brothers, Lincoln and Booth. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan Lori-Parks demonstrates that she is the master wordsmith with her play “Topdog/Underdog,” now having an explosive 20th anniversary revival at the John Golden Theatre at 252 W. Black Financial Health Open dropdown menu.
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