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Topdog/Underdog, Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow

When your father names you after a dead American president, it’s bound to have an effect.

Especially when you call his brother after the president’s killer. So it goes with Lincoln and Booth, the street-smart siblings for whom destiny deals a cruel but familiar hand in Suzan-Lori Parks’s ghetto-blast of a play.