Julliard's Drama Topdog/Underdog - Unforgettable

Watching the 2 character play by playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, about 2 brothers is like watching Ali & Frazier in the ring, like watching 3 card Monte holding your bet.  You can't take your eyes away for a second.  Parks is a Tony Award nominee & Pulitizer Prize winner for Drama.  This is a total knockdown brilliant play performed by 2 of the finest young actors assured of illustrious acting careers.  Michael Shaw plays Lincoln the older brother to Booth, played by Jeremy Tardy.  Lincoln tells his brother that their father named them as a joke. While there is humor in this play, it is not a comedy but an unforgettable drama.  The action takes place in a squalid 8 x 10" apartment with only 1 cot & 1 reclining chair & no plumbing.  The set is sunken into the center of the stage adding to the enclosed no escaping battle ground.  The love/hate relationship with the brothers is both endearing & savage.  The deal with this play is its relentless depiction of the plights of Blackmen from the time of Abraham Lincoln to present day.  Don't be a chump.  Go see anything by playwright Parks & anything performed by Shaw & Tardy.  These three reMARKable talents are the real deal.