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Darwin Lincoln Celebration


Events affiliated with the Division of Arts and Humanities


November 9 - 14, 2009


Theatre and Dance presents Topdog/Underdog

The Arthur Wagner Theatre

Topdog/Underdog is the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning play about two African American brothers, named Lincoln and Booth as a “joke” by their father, coping with women, work, poverty, gambling, racism, and their troubled upbringings. Using three-card monte as a metaphor, this play is ultimately about the Great American Con. Our production furthers UC San Diego’s conversation during the yearlong Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebrations.

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November 16 - 21, 2009


Theatre and Dance presents Sexual Selection:
Darwin and Shakespeare Ponder Love

Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre

Director Kim Rubinstein and Choreographer Yolande Snaith collaborate in this original dance theatre melding of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Don’t miss this celebration of the mating rituals of the human species seen through the lens of our greatest playwright and evolutionist!

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For information on all campus Darwin Lincoln events, click here.