‘Topdog/Underdog’: Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Dazzle in Slick Suzan-Lori Parks Revival
With a recession on the horizon, a year of racial protests in the rearview and a pandemic still rippling and raging, it makes sense that this season’s theater revivals lurk and pace around the American Dream. The mythical, unwieldy concept — marked by relentless striving and repeated heartbreak — is inherently Sisyphean, resembling our senseless approach to these times.
, reintroduces the Lomans as a Black family — a change that complicates Willy and layers his tragic end. At the Public Theater in New York, Robert O’Hara directs Lorraine Hansberry’s, a work that examines the American Dream with a shrewd dubiousness, looking past the glamour to the festering sores. Although these two plays are canonical studies of our nation’s vexing ideal, even they don’t quite capture the frenzied desperation of our calamitous present.
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