5/29/2023 0 Comments Topdog underdog yahya![]() Taking place, according to the program, here and now, the script nevertheless alludes to an earlier New York of street hustles and SRO hotels. Godot came to mind because Topdog's only characters, Booth and Lincoln - the names were their father's idea of a joke - inhabit a world that is both naturalistic and an existential limbo. ![]() (Well, maybe Beckett's modernist masterpiece, just a little.) Yet nothing in the theatre exists in a vacuum and sometimes the ghosts of dramas past can't help making their presence known. It's doubtful that Suzan-Lori Parks had either play in mind when writing her 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner. At the Golden Theatre, while taking in the superb teamwork of Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins in Topdog/Underdog I saw brief, yet unmistakable, flickers of both Waiting for Godot and, surprisingly The Gin Game. Sometimes in a Broadway theatre, one experiences a kind of pentimento effect, glimpsing traces of productions that previously occupied the same stage. ![]() Theatre in Review: Topdog/Underdog (Golden Theatre)Ĭorey Hawkins, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. ![]()
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