Published: October 29, 2009 10:27 pm      

Theater and dance department at FSU presents ‘TopDog/UnderDog,’ a student-directed production

FROSTBURG — Poverty, jokes and sibling rivalry are the foundation for Frostburg State University’s Music and Theatre Department’s production of “TopDog/UnderDog,” which will be presented as part of the student-directed Second Stage Productions.

Performances are set for Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 5, 6 and 7, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Perry Smith Studio Theatre of the Performing Arts Center.

Recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Topdog/Underdog,” by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a darkly comic fable concerning two African-American brothers, Lincoln and Booth, whose names were given to them as a joke by their father.

Abandoned by both parents and forced to depend on one another for survival, the men, now in their 30s, struggle to shed their poverty a midst a past that is haunted by sibling rivalry and escalating resentment.

For ticket information, call the box office at (301) 687-7462, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. and again from 1:30 until 4 p.m.