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I will start by saying that I don’t generally enjoy reading plays – I prefer to see them performed – but this play, is extraordinary. I highly recommend reading it, if a live theater performance isn’t available.
The play was first produced on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes, Harlem (or A Dream Deferred). The drama concerns the lives of an African American family living in an apartment on Chicago’s Southside, sometime between WWII and the mid-1950s. The Younger fam ...more
The play was first produced on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes, Harlem (or A Dream Deferred). The drama concerns the lives of an African American family living in an apartment on Chicago’s Southside, sometime between WWII and the mid-1950s. The Younger fam ...more
A Raisin In the Sun was certainly a commentary on race relations, but it's relevant to society on so many levels that go beyond just race. In this case an African-American family is fighting social injustice that plagues them because of their color. The family has their own internal disputes, and yet they band together to fight the world that would keep them down. As we meet each of the characters, we understand their position and what they plan to do to change it. It's painful to watch as dream
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