Topdog underdog review5/7/2023 ![]() However, the brothers’ lives are soon consumed by anger and greed as they succumb to the seductive gamble of three-card Monte, a hustlers’ card game of chance. At two hours and forty-five minutes, last weekend’s production of Topdog/Underdog, directed by Associate Professor of Theater and African American Studies Chair Caroline Jackson Smith, lacked nothing in length, and those who had the patience to sit through it witnessed a nearly flawless piece of live theater.Ĭombining the fun, hilarious and heart-wrenchingly serious, Topdog/Underdog follows the lives of two estranged brothers, Booth and Lincoln, portrayed by College senior Ralph Johnson, as they flit between empty romances, visions of wealth and musings of their deeply conflicted childhood. ![]() Little Theater echoed with these lines as leather-clad Booth, played by College senior Hayden Gilbert, endlessly flipped card over card with the skilled hands of a dealer. “Watch me close, watch me close now: Who-see-thuh-red-card-who-see-thuh-red-card? I-see-thuh-red-card.” ![]()
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