Lorraine Hansberry Robert Nemiroff Margaret B. Wilkerson
"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, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry...
"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 Ba...
Lorraine Hansberry Robert Nemiroff Robert Nemiroff
By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city. Barely five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry gave us an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice. These two plays remain milestones in the American theater, remarkable not only for their...
By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of...
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 forever.---The New York Times.
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 ...
New Revised Version 5 black m, 3 white m, 2 white f, 1 black f, 6 extras including 1 child Unit set Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near alcoholic and his older brother a...
New Revised Version 5 black m, 3 white m, 2 white f, 1 black f, 6 extras including 1 child Unit set Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs prophetical...
Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. 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...
Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production whi...
This is the story of a young woman born in Chicago who came to New York, won fame with her play, A Raisin in the Sun--and went on to new heights of artistry before her tragic death. In turns angry, loving, bitter, laughing, and defiantly proud, the story, voice, and message are all Lorraine Hansberry's own, coming together in one of the major works of the black experience in mid-century America.
This is the story of a young woman born in Chicago who came to New York, won fame with her play, A Raisin in the Sun--and went on to new height...
Contents: §Die Personen - Der Inhalt - The author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Dramas im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmodells - Components - Weiterführende Materialien§Component 1: Living and dreaming in the ghetto: Life in a rat trap - The important things in life§Component 2: From rags to riches and back: Moving up - Neighbors and other troubles - Unpleasant encounters on moving day - Übersicht über die DVD-Kapitel§Component 3: Out of the ghetto and heading to new horizons: The deferred dream - White bribe versus black pride§Component 4: Wrapping up the...
Contents: §Die Personen - Der Inhalt - The author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Dramas im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmod...
Das Theaterstück A Raisin in the Sun der US-Amerikanischen Dramatikerin Lorraine Hansberry erzählt von einer afroamerikanischen Arbeiterfamilie, die im Ghetto Chicagos lebt.
Mama, das Familienoberhaupt wartet auf einen Scheck aus der Lebensversicherung ihres verstorbenen Gatten. Um die Frage, wie die 10.000$ ausgegeben werden sollen, entspinnt sich die Handlung des Dramas.
Mit dem Drama, das bei seiner Uraufführung 1959 das erste einer afro-amerikanischen Dramatikerin war, das je am Broadway aufgeführt wurde, gibt Lorraine Hansberry Menschen eine Stimme, die zuvor keine hatten. Dabei...
Das Theaterstück A Raisin in the Sun der US-Amerikanischen Dramatikerin Lorraine Hansberry erzählt von einer afroamerikanischen Arbeiterfamilie, die...