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A Raisin in the Sun: Directed by Bill Duke. With Starletta DuPois, Lou Ferguson, John Fiedler, Danny Glover. A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor Black family.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Bill Duke
- 1989-02-01
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In essence, the play shows a family of four adults, each feeling they have no identity. Esther's children are grown, so she's no longer useful as a mother; and as a recent widow, she's no longer a wife. Danny feels the pressure of providing for his family, but he doesn't feel like a man.
Combining high drama, transcendent humanity and often side-splitting humor, the play confronts the American Dream through the survival struggle of a ghetto family whose conflicting visions of a better life are brought within reach when the father dies, leaving a $10,000 insurance annuity.
Feb 1, 1989 · Tonight's ''American Playhouse'' adaptation, based on the 1986 Roundabout Theater production, includes material that had been cut in earlier incarnations, including an effective few moments in...
Feb 1, 1989 · By SYLVIE DRAKE. Feb. 1, 1989 12 AM PT. Times Theater Writer. If you loved the Roundabout Theatre’s 25th anniversary production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” you’ll love...
Culture magazines. A Raisin in the Sun 1989. views 3,596,438 updated. A Raisin in the Sun ★★★ 1989. An “American Playhouse” presentation of the Lorraine Hansberry play about a black family threatened with dissolution by the outside forces of racism and greed when they move into an allwhite neighborhood in the 1950s. 171m/C VHS, DVD .
