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Topdog/Underdog (Theatre)
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Topdog/Underdog is a 2001 play by Suzan-Lori Parks.The entire play takes place in a single set—a shabby room in a boarding house—and has only two characters, who are named "Lincoln" and "Booth."Yes, those are their names.Lincoln and Booth are African-American brothers, trying to survive. They have been each other's only family since first their mother, and then their father abandoned him. Lincoln, the older brother, used to run a three-card monte scam, and he was quite good at it. But after one of his partners got shot and killed, Lincoln left the criminal life. He now has a straight job as...wait for it...an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, in an amusement park attraction where he dresses up as the 16th President of the United States at Ford's Theater, and tourists pretend to shoot him.Meanwhile, his brother Booth is jobless. Booth has ambitions to follow his older brother into three-card monte scamming, but he's not as good at is as Lincoln is. Booth has an ex-girlfriend named Grace, whom he hopes to win back.The original off-Broadway production featured Jeffrey Wright as Lincoln and Don Cheadle as Booth. When the play hit Broadway in 2002 Wright returned as Lincoln and Mos Def played Booth. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Grace, Booth's ex-girlfriend. He claims to have had sex with her, he thinks she's coming over to his room one night, and he later says they're getting back together and will be married. She's never seen, and in the final pages of the play, Booth reveals that he lied about the marriage and actually shot her during an argument at some point during the story. | |
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Absurdism | |
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Absurdism: Brothers named Lincoln and Booth. And Lincoln, despite being black, has a job as an Abraham Lincoln imitator, in an attraction where people pretend to assassinate him. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Lincoln and Booth's parents both abandoned them, separately, leaving the brothers all alone when Lincoln was 16 and Booth was 11. | |
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Head-Turning Beauty | |
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Head-Turning Beauty: Grace, although she never appears. Lincoln and Booth commiserate on how good-looking she is, and Lincoln talks about how everybody he knew would stop and watch as Grace walked by. | |
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Pietà Plagiarism | |
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Pietà Plagiarism: Booth does this after killing Lincoln. The stage direction at the end says "Booth holds Lincoln's body, hugging him close." | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Lincoln uses his three-card monte skills to take Booth's $500 inheritance from his parents. Booth then murders Lincoln. He cradles his brother's body and shouts in anguish as the play ends. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: Much is made of how Booth's mother left him $500 tied up in a stocking. Booth has never opened the stocking, and Lincoln taunts him with the prospect that their mother was lying and there isn't real money in the stocking. Lincoln is about to slice the stocking open when Booth kills him, and we never find out if Lincoln was right or not. | |
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Bottle Episode | |
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Bottle Episode: Two characters, one set. | |
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If I Can't Have You… | |
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If I Can't Have You…: At the end Booth reveals that after Grace rejected him, he shot her to death. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: Lincoln had a premonition that he needed to quit hustling with the three-card monte game. But he went out and ran the scam anyway, and his partner Lonny got shot and killed. Lincoln still feels guilt. | |
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Significant Name: The characters are named "Booth" and "Lincoln". Sure enough, in the end Booth kills Lincoln. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: Only two parts in the play. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: A lot of this, especially when the brothers are delivering exposition about their past and how their parents abandoned them. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Lincoln comments about sometimes letting the mark win so that he can get the mark to make a big bet, which is when Lincoln will win. In the end, this is exactly what Lincoln does with Booth. | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight: At one point a stressed-out Lincoln was unable to get aroused for sex with his wife Connie, which was why she cheated on him—with Booth. | |
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Comforting Comforter | |
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Comforting Comforter: To demonstrate how much he really does care for his older brother, Booth puts a blanket over Lincoln when Lincoln falls asleep in the chair. | |
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Stood Up | |
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Stood Up: Booth prepares an elaborate dinner for Grace in his room, but she never shows. | |
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Blackface | |
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Blackface: Inverted. Lincoln puts on whiteface when he's impersonating his namesake Abraham Lincoln. | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today? | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: Booth brags about the great sex he just had with Grace. Lincoln guesses that he's lying, and it's strongly implied that Lincoln is right. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Booth comes back to the room bragging about how he had great sex with Grace. Lincoln guesses that he's lying and will end his evening by masturbating to his stash of porno magazines. After Lincoln goes to sleep in the easy chair, Booth crawls into bed with a porno mag in hand. | |
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