Pulitzer-winning Suzan-Lori Parks drama begins Curious’s first season in residence at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance.
Curious Theatre Company will open its 29th season with Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, directed by Steven Sapp and featuring artistic company member Cajardo Lindsey as Lincoln and Rakeem Lawrence as Booth.
The production runs Aug. 29-Sept. 20, with previews Aug. 27-28, at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance’s Historic Shorter AME Building at 119 Park Ave. W. in Denver.
The show marks Curious’s first production in residence with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance while the company’s longtime home at 1080 Acoma St. undergoes renovation.
Parks won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog, a two-hander about brothers Lincoln and Booth, who share a cramped apartment and a fractured family history. Lincoln has stepped away from his past as a three-card monte hustler; Booth is determined to master the game himself. As the two navigate work, relationships and long-simmering resentments, old rivalries resurface.
“Topdog/Underdog is a play that asks us to look closely at the stories we inherit and the roles we’re asked to play,” Curious Artistic Director Jada Suzanne Dixon said in a statement. “It’s thrilling, heartbreaking, funny, and deeply compassionate. As the first production in our Season 29 exploration of the question ‘Who are we to each other?’, it feels like the perfect way to begin this next chapter.”
Sapp is an actor, writer and co-founder of the theatre collective UNIVERSES. He was recently named a Drama League Directors Project recipient.
Season 29 will explore stories of identity, memory, belonging and responsibility, the company said. The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance partnership is new for Curious, which has typically programmed out of its own Acoma Street space.
Tickets and information at curioustheatre.org.
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