Booth has aspirations of working the streets dealing Three-card Monte, a game Lincoln left to pursue honest work. Abandoned by their parents at 16 and 11, they have been forced to make their own way in the world and struggle to make their rent and other bills from Lincoln’s salary at the arcade, where he works as a Lincoln impersonator in a shooting game. Through a series of monologues and conversations between the brothers, we learn that their lives have not been easy. Booth is letting Lincoln share the room temporarily after his divorce. Lake) and Booth (Alexander Heck), named by their father as a joke, live together in a one-room apartment. Brothers Lincoln (played here by Michael A. The two-person play moved to Broadway in 2002, when it was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Topdog/Underdog premiered off-Broadway in 2001. Once a season, CapRep welcomes a BTTUNY production onto its Main Stage. BTTUNY’s home stage is the Lauren and Harold Iselin Studio, CapRep’s black box theatre located upstairs from the Main Stage. Monnay has been successfully carrying out his mission in Capital Region community theater for nearly 15 years. The troupe’s mission, stated simply and purposefully by Monnay (who also directs this production) in his curtain speech, is to promote performances by and about artists of color. BTTUNY was founded in 2009 as Soul Rebel Performance Troupe by Jean-Remy Monnay.
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