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Description

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, forettling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment.... read more

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First Sentence

Watch me close watch me close now: who-see-thuh-red-card-who-see-thuh-red-card?

Authors & Contributors

  1. Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)

Awards

Popular Tags

  1. 2002
  2. 2009
  3. african/diaspora
  4. avant-garde
  5. brotherhood
  6. dignity
  7. drama
  8. fable
  9. family
  10. fate
  11. gambling
  12. humor
  13. labor
  14. murder
  15. new york
  16. parks
  17. play
  18. poverty
  19. racism
  20. recent
  21. resentment
  22. rivalry
  23. school 
 

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