Topdog/Underdog (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Suzan-Lori Parks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854597647 ISBN 13: 9781854597649

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2003

Synopsis

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. 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. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the reality of their future.

About this title

Review:

Exhilarating, funny but also devastatingly sad, presenting a vivid microcosm of both family relationships and the black experience in America today. --Telegraph

Suzan-Lori Parks has 'burst though every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way. --New York Observer

About the Author:

One of the contemporary American theater's most innovative wordsmiths. Her plays include: Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer-nominee), Fucking A, Venus (OBIE Award), The America Play and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play). She is also a screenwriter, novelist, and MacArthur "Genius" grantee.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1854597647
• ISBN 13: 9781854597649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128