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Nov 29, 2004 · From the Inside Flap. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater ...
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Plot. Walter and Ruth Younger, and their son Travis, along with Walter's mother Lena (Mama) and younger sister Beneatha, live in poverty in a run-down two-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Side. Walter is barely making a living as a limousine driver. Though Ruth is content with their lot, Walter desperately wishes to become wealthy.
- Lorraine Hansberry
- March 11, 1959
Lorraine Hansberry. People know American playwright Lorraine Vivian Hansberry for her play A Raisin in the Sun (1959). This writer inspired "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," song of Nina Simone. She, the first such Black woman, wrote a play, performed on Broadway. Her best known work highlights the lives of Blacks under racial segregation in ...
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A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, a Black family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. This money comes from the deceased Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy.
- Lorraine Hansberry
- 1959
About A Raisin in the Sun. "Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling ...
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Nov 29, 2004 · A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 29, 2004 - Drama - 160 pages. "Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
About A Raisin in the Sun. Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry’s script and a testament to her unparalled accomplishment as a Black artist.
