The author's note to this play indicates that a repetition of characters' names with no dialogue indicates an "elongated and heightened rest" where characters "experience their pure true simple state.
The author's note to this play indicates that a repetition of characters' names with no dialogue indicates an "elongated and heightened rest" where characters "experience their pure true simple state." In this play's first scene, characters read aloud such phrases as "Waste not want not" and "Your luck will change!" after opening the fortune cookies from their Chinese takeout. Near the end of this play, one character struggles to untie the knot on a nylon sock containing his "inheritance." A character in this play angrily conceals his "girlie mags" beneath his bed as he waits for his (*) girlfriend Grace. In its sixth scene, a character claims to have landed a job as a security guard, when in reality he spent the day hustling people on the street in a game of three-card monte. This play's cast of two consists of the shoplifter Booth and his presidential impersonator brother Lincoln. For 10 points, name this 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Suzan-Lori Parks.
The author's note to this play indicates that a repetition of characters' names with no dialogue indicates an "elongated and heightened rest" where characters "experience their pure true simple state.
Topdog/Underdog