Topdog/Underdog

Students travel to Broadway to view 'Topdog/Underdog' and talkback with Suzan-Lori Parks '85 and Debra Martin Chase '77

Students travel to Broadway to view 'Topdog/Underdog' and talkback with Suzan-Lori Parks '85 and Debra Martin Chase '77

Roughly 50 Mount Holyoke students piled onto a bus to head to New York City on Sunday, Dec. 4, to see “Topdog/Underdog,” a play written by Suzan-Lori Parks ’85. The show is currently being revived at the John Golden Theatre after premiering off-Broadway in 2001 at The Public Theater and then first showing on Broadway in 2002. Parks won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play, becoming the first Black woman ever to do so, New York Theatre Guide reported. Interim President Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum facilitated a talkback after the show with Parks and producer Debra Martin Chase ’77.