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TopDog/UnderDog

TopDog/UnderDog. Suzan-Lori Parks. Suzan-Lori Parks. American (Kentucky) Born in 1963 – our only living playwright!! Won 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama for Topdog /Underdog (and has won numerous other awards)

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TopDog/UnderDog

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  1. TopDog/UnderDog Suzan-Lori Parks

  2. Suzan-Lori Parks • American (Kentucky) • Born in 1963 – our only living playwright!! • Won 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama for Topdog/Underdog (and has won numerous other awards) • Also a novelist and screenwriter – has worked with Spike Lee, Oprah’s company, and others

  3. Topdog/Underdog • Premiered off-Broadway in 2001 • Premiered on Broadway in 2002 • Lincoln – Jeffrey Wright • Booth – Don Cheadle and then Mos Def • Still in production today at many theaters around the country! (and continues to be critically acclaimed) • Like Waiting for Godot, written in genre of tragicomedy

  4. A still shot of Lincoln & Booth http://www.suzanloriparks.com/photos/ Taken From - http://www.suzanloriparks.com/

  5. Lincoln dressed up as Honest Abe

  6. Interview with Parks (Excerpts) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par1int-1

  7. Ties to Theater of the Absurd Parks is an experimental and avant-garde writer whose plays often echo the Theater of the Absurd 1) What are some of the Theater of the Absurd conventions this play follows?

  8. Ties to Theater of the Absurd Cont’d 2) What contemporary cultural issues does Parks seem to address? (we are obviously not dealing with the problems of the 40s & 50s here…vastly different cultural allusions between the two plays!)

  9. Ties to Theater of the Absurd Cont’d 3) How is this play an echo of (and a departure from) Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? Or, in other words, what are some similarities and differences in terms of themes, character, setting, plot, etc.?

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