In a play by this author, two characters sing, “I’ve had all your whiskey and downed all your wine / Just sitting here lonesome and passing the time.” A scene by this author denotes an elongated rest, or “spell,” by repeating characters’ names directly after one another in the script without any dialogue. The enslaved man Hero changes his name to Ulysses at the end of this author’s trilogy Father Comes Home From the Wars. In a play by this author, characters state “one good pick will get you in, 2 good picks and you gone win” as part of a monologue for their street hustle. A 500-dollar inheritance is kept in a nylon stocking in a play by this author in which a man shoots his brother during a disagreement over a game of Three-Card Monte (“monty”). For 10 points, name this contemporary playwright who wrote about an Abraham Lincoln impersonator and his brother Booth in her play Topdog/Underdog. ■END■
ANSWER: Suzan-Lori Parks
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