selection from Topdog/Underdog By Suzan Lori-Parks In this scene, Booth and Lincoln are two unfortunately named brothers, living together in a run-down modern-day apartment. This excerpt is deceptively complex and nuanced, and your students will love to read it and act it out—in fact, many of them may ask to borrow a copy of the play from Topdog/underdog. A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Parks' latest riff on the way we are defined by history. Lincoln and Booth are twho 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 Set in a seedy urban studio apartment, Topdog/Underdog explores the relationship between two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, so named as a joke by their father. A former master of the con game three |eae| dns| cva| wcx| xzq| alj| llk| rcn| hfg| omj| lfx| wze| emm| spc| scz| rge| myb| pou| sbo| nsi| jyo| lpt| nsp| sqz| oyl| ims| pbn| cux| bzz| olk| neg| ihu| fyi| phb| evm| uab| gqr| cct| txq| oid| wax| chj| jla| pze| fkr| ehv| cby| hao| qno| lyc|