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TOPDOG/UNDERDOG at Avant Bard

Dates: (3/14/2019 - 4/14/2019 )

Theatre:

Avant Bard


2700 South Lang Street
Arlington, 22206

Phone: 703-418-4808

Tickets: $40/PWYW

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TOPDOG/UNDERDOG


TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, Directed by DeMone Seraphin. Starring Louis E. Davis and Jeremy Keith Hunter. A tensely funny and dead serious tragicomedy, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is a Cain-and-Abel fable for Black America. Lincoln and Booth have depended on each other since their parents left, and until recently counted on Lincolns grifting to get by. Now he has gone straight, impersonating his namesake in a carnival where tourists pay to play assassin. When Booth resolves to become the greatest con man of all time, the brothers struggle over how best to play the tough hand America dealt them.

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Ages: High school and up  

Cast and Creative team for TOPDOG/UNDERDOG at Avant Bard

Louis E. Davis (playing the younger brother, Booth) was a member of the Helen Hayes Award-winning ensemble in the Theater Alliance production of Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s hip-hop choreopoem Word Becomes Flesh. His other credits include Solas Nua’s The Frederick Douglass Project (Helen Hayes Award nomination, outstanding supporting actor in a play), Taffety Punk’s Don Juan, Avant Bard’s King Lear, Imagination Stage’s The Freshest Snow Whyte, Mosaic Theater Company’s Charm, and Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play. He recently appeared in Constellation Theatre’s The Master and Margarita.

Jeremy Keith Hunter makes his Avant Bard debut playing the older brother, Lincoln. Hailing out of the DMV, Jeremy is a multidisciplinary artist with a strong focus in theatre and film acting, writing, and graphic design. His previous theatre credits include The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek (Metrostage); The Farnsworth Invention (1st Stage); Rabbit Summer (Ally Theatre Company); Word Becomes Flesh (us) (Theater Alliance); Hooded or Being Black for Dummies, Milk Like Sugar, When January Feels Like Summer (Mosaic Theatre Company); Arabian Nights (Constellation Theater); and The Effect (us) (Studio Theatre).

 

 

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