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Brothers Brandon & Jason Dirden to star in TOPDOG/UNDERDOG at Two River Theater
Ten years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Suzan-Lori Parks directs her own play – a mythic fable about brotherly love, family, and history – for the first time; real-life brothers Brandon J. Dirden and Jason Dirden star as Lincoln and Booth.

Ten years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Suzan-Lori Parks directs her own play – a mythic fable about brotherly love, family, and history – for the first time; real-life brothers Brandon J. Dirden and Jason Dirden star as Lincoln and Booth.
Topdog/Underdog is one of the most powerful dramas in the American theater. Acclaimed for its taut theatricality and surprising humor, the play tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth-names given to them as a joke by their father.
This production will star real-life brothers Brandon J. Dirden (August Wilson’s Jitney at Two River, Broadway’s Clybourne Park and Enron) as Lincoln, and Jason Dirden (the 2010 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences) as Booth.
Each day, Lincoln puts on a top hat and a fake beard and goes to work in a seedy arcade, where tourists come for the chance to shoot Honest Abe. Booth is obsessed with a street con game, three-card monte. Striving for a better life, bound by their love for each other, they are haunted by their own pasts-and our country’s history.
Topdog/Underdog contains adult language and content and is recommended for mature audiences.
The creative team for Topdog/Underdog includes Tony Award-winning scenic and lighting designer Christopher Akerlind; Tony-nominated costume designer ESosa, the runner-up on the 2010 season of Project Runway; sound designer Brendan Connelly; and fight director Thomas Schall. The casting is by Heidi Griffiths and the stage manager is Amanda Michaels.
The play runs September 8th to September 30th. For more information please visit www.trtc.org
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