![]() Mom left first leaving Booth’s five-hundred dollar “inheritance” in a nylon stocking and charging him to take care of his older brother Lincoln. Lincoln and Booth’s Mom and Dad split when they were sixteen and thirteen respectively. It is Suzan Lori-Parks’s persistent scraping away at the barnacles on the underbelly of the brothers’ pasts that drives the plot in this chilling revival of “Topdog/Underdog.” It isn’t this present tension that matters. ![]() From the first scene of the play currently running at the John Golden Theatre, it is evident that there is tension between older brother Lincoln (a complex, unstable, yet broken Corey Hawkins) and his younger brother Booth (a deeply damaged, introspective, and abandoned Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). ![]() In the current 20 th anniversary production of “Topdog/Underdog,” Suzan Lori-Parks reminds the audience that when one does not receive unconditional and nonjudgmental love and chooses to disconnect from one’s cultural and family histories, things can and will go terribly wrong. ![]()
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