How long does it take to read Topdog/Underdog?
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks takes about 2 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours
An evening's read
First published 2001. 109 pages, about 29,975 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including In the Blood and Venus. She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
Subjects: Drama, Sibling rivalry, Brothers, Play, Theatre, Theatre play
