About the Play
Topdog/Underdog, a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity written by Suzan-Lori Parks, tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, names given to them as a joke by their father. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history as they cope with women, work, poverty, gambling, racism, and their troubled upbringings.
After a successful run off-Broadway in 2001, Topdog/Underdog had an extended run on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre and, in 2002, Parks won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.