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Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in provident Hospitals on the South Side of Chicago and she grew up in a Middle-Class status. When she was (8) eight years old, Lorraine Hansberry‘s family deliberately attempted to move into a restricted neighborhood. The Hansberry moved into the house on Rhodes Avenue in May 1937. She began a play, called “THY CRYSTAL STAIR”, from Langston Hughes’s Poem “Mother to Son” and later retitled it A RAISIN IN THE SUN FROM Hughes’s Poem, Harlem: “A Dream Deferred” Lorraine Hansberry a playwright the first play written by an African American to produce on Broadway and she also used member of her family as inspiration, for her character in the one interview, Lorraine Hansberry laughingly, said, “Beneatha is me (8) eight years ago”.A RAISIN IN THE SUN is a 1989 THEATER PLAY of the name Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Bill Duke, cast in the order of appearances Starletta Dupols as Ruth Younger, Kimble Joyner as Travis Younger, Danny Glover as Walter Lee Younger, Kim Yancey as Beneatha Younger, Ester Rolle as Lena Younger, Lou Fergison as Joseph Asagai, Joseph C. Phillips as George Murchison, John Fiedler as Karl Linder, Stephen Henderson as Bobo, and the name of the production company is American Playhouse presents.
The Younger is an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in 1956. The Younger’s family is about to receive an insurance check. This money comes from the decrease in Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. The adult in the family have ideas would like to do with the money. Mama Youngers wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with her husband. Walter Lee Mama’s son, would rather use the money to invest in a liquor store because he believes the investment will solve the family’s financial problems. Beneatha Younger, Mama’s daughter, and Walter Lee’s sister want to use the money for her medical school tuition Ruth Younger discovers that she is pregnant but she is considering abortion because of the fear that if she has a child, she have more financial pressure on her family. Mama Younger put a down payment on a house and this house is in Clybourne Park. And Clybourne park Mr. Linder offers the Younger family money in return but the Younger family refuses the deal. Walter Lee loses half of the money to his friend Harris to the investment of a liquor store. The youngers eventually move out of the apartment, fulfilling the family’s dream and Mama Younger are crying return and grabbing her plant they believe that they can succeed if they are together.
In A RAISIN IN THE SUN THE characters each have their own individual dream-like Mama Younger wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with her husband, and Mama’s son Walter Lee would rather use the
money to invest in a liquor store than he believes the investment will solve the family’s financial problem and Beneatha Younger wants to use the money for her medical school tuition but in the end, they believe that they can succeed if they stick together as a family and resolve to their dreams. This Theater plays A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1989) is very long, and has poor lighting. In the beginning, we can find this uninteresting but as the story goes by it is pretty good because of the performances of the actors.
A RAISIN IN THE SUN is a Theater play that is directed by Bill Duke and written by Lorraine Hansberry. The main character isn’t the Younger family but their dream. The authors focused on the dream of the Younger family for the financial family problem. The plot describes the Younger family having their own individual dream, Mama Younger wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with her husband, and Mama’s son Walter Lee would rather use the money to invest in a liquor store than he believes the investment will solve the family financial problems and Beneatha Younger wants to use the money for her medical school tuition but in the end, they believe that they can succeed if they stick together as a family and resolve to their dreams. The Theater Play A RAISIN IN THE SUN is very long and has poor lighting. In the beginning, we can find this uninteresting but as the story goes by it is pretty good because of the performances of the actors, Starletta Dupols, Kimble Joyner, Danny Glover, Kim Yancey, Lou Ferguson, Joseph C. Phillips, John Fiedler, Stephen Henderson, Esther Rolle are good at acting so the theater play that A RAISIN IN THE SUN is even better and the director Bill Duke has a good production of theater play because she focused on the dream of the Younger’s family and he focused on wants to show the dominance of the actors which I find interesting.
The play ends when the Youngers family eventually moves out of the apartment, fulfilling the family’s long-held dream, and Mama Youngers returns because he grabs her plats which represents her dream of a happy, content family in a home they can call their own.
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