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A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun

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ISBN13: 9780679755333
ISBN10: 0679755330
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This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee, and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school.

The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust, and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. Winner of the NY Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year, it has been hailed as a "pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre." by Newsweek and "a milestone in the American Theatre." by Ebony.

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“Miss Hansberry has etched her characters with understanding, and told her story with dramatic impact. She has a keen sense of humor, an ear for accurate speech and compassion for people.” Robert Coleman, New York Mirror

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“An honest, intelligible, and moving experience.” Walter Kerr, New York Herald Tribune

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“A beautiful, lovable play. It is affectionately human, funny and touching....A work of theatrical magic in which the usual barrier between audience and stage disappears.” John Chapman, New York News

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Lorraine Hansberry, at twenty-nine, became the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the first black playwright to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best Play of the Year. Her A Raisin in the Sun has since been published and produced in some 30 countries, while her film adaptation was nominated by the New York critics for the Best Screenplay and received a Cannes Film Festival Award. At thirty-four, during the run of her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer. In the years since her death, her stature has continued to grow. To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a dramatic portrait of the playwright in her own words, was the longest-running Off-Broadway drama of 1969, and has been recorded, filmed, and published in expanded book form, and has toured an unprecedented forty states and two hundred colleges. In 1986, following the stage production of the 25th anniversary of A Raisin in the Sun by the Roundabout Theatre in New York City, the play was widely acclaimed as in the foremost ranks of American classics. In 1990, the PBS American Playhouse TV adaptation of the 25th-anniversary version had one of the highest viewing audiences in PBS history. Les Blancs, her last play — posthumously performed on Broadway and recently in prominent regional theaters — has been hailed by a number of critics as her best.

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ISBN:
9780679755333
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
11/29/2004
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Pages:
160
Height:
.60IN
Width:
4.10IN
Thickness:
.50
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1994
Author:
Lorraine Hansberry
Intro/preface:
Robert Nemiroff
Subject:
Afro-Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.
Subject:
American drama (dramatic works by one author)
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Domestic drama.
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
History
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Drama-American Anthology
Subject:
African American families

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