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Topdog underdog theater7/6/2023 ![]() Two men, blood-tied but needling opposites, flipsides of a shared trauma they know all too well. The title of the play is the dynamic we see before us. They are meaningfully named after both the iconic assassin and the iconic president. Lincoln is defined by Parks in her script as the topdog, Booth the underdog. Yet they remain yoked together, unable to separate, unable to bid farewell. They are Waiting for Godot’s Vladimir and Estragon, who want something to change-money to escape poverty, ambition to vault them somewhere new-who possibly want to say goodbye to one another, who are desperate to be somewhere else, who want to leave through that door. All we see of the men-bantering, being sweet, bickering, planning, dreaming, interrogating, infuriating, pacifying, angering-is in the room, with its one bed. ![]()
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