Before, they both wore T-shirts, but after he steals the clothes they wear for a while a blue suit with a blue shirt and tie and a brown suit with a dark red shirt and tie. One day he starts taking off suit after suit of clothes, followed by shoes and belts until you realize he's stolen them all. Booth tries to get better at the scam, but meanwhile he's a superb shoplifter. Lincoln was good at throwing cards in the three-card monte con game, but he promises never to go back to it. At one point, a threatening, mysterious, blue light shows up on the spears. Although they do not speak of them, the brothers do some things for which they might want to be protected.

And Ramos has surrounded the apartment with sharp wooden spears. We see a part of the ceiling opened up, underscoring their poverty. The brothers set up two milk boxes with a board for eating and playing three-card monte, which drives the play. There are two front windows that look out onto the street.

We soon learn the several-years older character, Lincoln, sleeps in a folding chair and complains of it. Harris as Booth and Tyrone Mitchell Henderson as Lincoln) live together in a simple wallpapered room with a bathroom down the hall in scenic designer Clint Ramos' set. The play is directed in a lively manner by Billy Porter, who previously helmed 'The Colored Museum' at the Huntington, and won a 2013 best actor Tony for his role in 'Kinky Boots.' 'Topdog/Underdog' is being staged by the Huntington Theatre Company at the Avenue of the Arts/BU Theatre. She also was awarded a McArthur 'genius' grant, and has written a number of plays, screenplays and novels. Parks was the first black woman to be given the award. The play reached Broadway in 2002 when its author received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for it. We're left with a lingering doubt, which makes this play really intriguing. But we're not sure that some of things they talk about really happened. Harris and Tyrone Mitchell Henderson.īOSTON - Topdog/Underdog' by Suzan-Lori Parks, gives us an intriguing view of how two poor, black brothers live together with virtually nothing. Directed by Billy Porter with set design by Clint Ramos, the play stars Matthew J. Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Topdog/Underdog' is the story of brothers Lincoln and Booth - their names were their father's idea of a joke - and their intense rivalry.

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