Review: Top Dog/Underdog by Viceroys

by Michael Meigs
Published on January 31, 2016

Playwright Parks' talent is such that she makes a grotesque concept largely irrelevant n an extended, harsh and convincing portrayal of the serial defeats of the bottom one percent.

 Matthew Frazier and Jarrett King, the self-styled Viceroys, delivered to initiates and fans a four-performance in camara production of Suzan-Lori Parks' fascinatingly grim drama Topdog/Underdog  during the final days of January. The studio theatre at the Salvage Vanguard, a close and dark little space with perhaps fifty seats, lent itself to the creation of the barren and junk-furnished squat shared by two brothers. Lincoln and Booth, so named by sardonic father and overwhelmed mother who abandoned …

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