Topdog/Underdog - Acting Edition

"[A] thrilling comic drama....The play...vibrates with the clamor of big ideas, audaciously and exuberantly expressed. Like INVISABLE MAN Ralph Ellison's landmark novel of 1952, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG considers nothing less than the existential traps of being African-American and male in the United States, the masks that wear the men as well as vice versa...Ms. Parks demonstrates that she can shape a captivating narrative without sacrificing her high thematic ambitions. She even incorporates one of the more far-fetched metaphoric devices from her AMERICAN PLAY into TOPDOG--the idea of a black man portraying Abraham Lincoln in an arcade shooting booth--and gets you to accept it without blinking."Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of 'Topdog/Underdog - Acting Edition', published 2004 under ISBN 9780822219835 and ISBN 0822219832.