![]() Bottle Episode: Two characters, one set.As You Know: A lot of this, especially when the brothers are delivering exposition about their past and how their parents abandoned them.And Lincoln, despite being black, has a job as an Abraham Lincoln imitator, in an attraction where people pretend to assassinate him. Absurdism: Brothers named Lincoln and Booth.When the play hit Broadway in 2002 Wright returned as Lincoln and Mos Def played Booth. The original off-Broadway production featured Jeffrey Wright as Lincoln and Don Cheadle as Booth. Booth has an ex-girlfriend named Grace, whom he hopes to win back. ![]() Booth has ambitions to follow his older brother into three-card monte scamming, but he's not as good at is as Lincoln is. He now has a straight job as.wait for it.an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, in an amusement park attraction where he dresses up as the 16th President of the United States at Ford's Theater, and tourists pretend to shoot him. But after one of his partners got shot and killed, Lincoln left the criminal life. Lincoln, the older brother, used to run a three-card monte scam, and he was quite good at it. They have been each other's only family since first their mother, and then their father abandoned him. Lincoln and Booth are African-American brothers, trying to survive. The entire play takes place in a single set-a shabby room in a boarding house-and has only two characters, who are named "Lincoln" and "Booth." ![]() Topdog/Underdog is a 2001 play by Suzan-Lori Parks. ![]()
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