![]() ![]() Dealing with a seemingly small, stacked deck-two brothers, suggestively named Lincoln and Booth, reminisce and recriminate over a few nights in a tatty walk-up flat-she appears to show us her hand, all the while spinning out tangents and tricks that divert us from the high stakes on the table. Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks manages a similar sleight-of-hand hustle with her brilliant two-hander Topdog/Underdog, now in a stark, stunning, roof-raising production at the Mark Taper Forum. He might as well be stroking a crystal ball as he looks into his mark's eyes and unspools his hypnotic, reiterative patter. ![]() A 'Topdog' in Top Form Actors as Seductive as the Street Cons They Portrayįrom the simple raw materials of three-card monte-a few crates and a board, cards creased like small tents and placed in a row-a seasoned hustler can turn his streetcorner into a kind of open-air palmist's den, as seductively intimate as a confessional or a peep-show booth. ![]()
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