lorraine hansberry a raisin in the sun 1959

It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, as well as praise from audiences and critics, who deemed it a play both universal and specific in its revealing and honest writing. Not only was she young to meet with such a success, but her Broadway production was the first written by an African American woman and the first to have an African American director. Lorraine Hansberry was only 28 years of age when her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, premiered on the Broadway stage. With their own choices for moving forward in a world in which their gender, age, andĬolor of skin seem to determine their past, present, and future. Themselves whether poverty versus wealth is truly equivalent to despair versus happiness.Īs the money moves from one family member’s hand to the next, each Younger struggles Inherited 10,000 dollars in insurance money that promises to change their lives forever.įinally in possession of the fortune they never had, the Younger family now must ask Lena Younger and her family have lived, through discrimination and poverty, in the sameīeaten-up apartment in Chicago’s Southside for years, ever since Lena and her husband

A copy of the script can also be purchased from Amazon and Samuel French, among other online sellers. A Raisin in the Sun is still produced and read often and can be found in most bookstores and libraries.

Lorraine hansberry a raisin in the sun 1959