Press
For the production...
"...Walton, physically big and powerful, lurches and careens, takes over the audience with his energy and with an enormous range of charm and beauty which served him well in his character's former life, the shorter, lithe Murtadha identifies with the inner emotional life of his brutish brother. Bottom Line: Dog eats dog with chainsaw appetite." - Laurence Vittes, The Hollywood Reporter
"...Walton and Murtadha's rugged, emotionally charged performances work magic." - Lovell Estell III, L.A. Weekly
"Thumbs up!" - Steven Stanley, StageSceneLA.com
For the play...
“ an utterly mesmerizing evening of theater….the vitality freshness and gritty lyricism of Parks’ writing are unline anything to be heard on a Broadway Stage…” - Variety
“a vibrant comic drama of shifting identity and betryal…from the ferociously talented author of In The Blood and The America Play…” - The New York Times
“The issues are gripping, the characters are dynamite…a must-see play.” – BackStage
“Suzan-Lori Parks is a remarkable playwright. She is an original whose fierce intelligence, and fearless approach to craft, subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as is fresh. I am standing with my hat in the air. “ – August Wilson
"Topdog/Underdog is one of the best plays of the last decade." - Richard Greenberg (TONY Award Winning, Pulitzer Prize Nominated Playwright)