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Topdog underdog by suzan lori parks5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Startled by his brother’s costume, Booth whirls around and points a pistol at Lincoln, threatening to shoot him next time he scares him like that. ![]() He has just come from his new job at the arcade, where he sits dressed up as Abraham Lincoln while customers shoot him with cap guns, a job he recently took so that he could leave behind his dangerous life as a Three-Card Monte conman. He’s wearing a long coat, a fake beard, and a top hat. Lincoln is a former hustler and Three-Card Monte dealer who’s staying with Booth because his wife, Cookie, has left him. ![]() Interrupting him, his brother Lincoln enters. He rehearses his banter, imitating phrases he’s heard hustlers use on the street. In the opening scene of Topdog/Underdog, Booth sits in a squalid apartment and practices playing Three-Card Monte atop a cardboard box propped up by milk crates. ![]()
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