![]() In the meantime, Lena’s daughter Beneatha rejects her wealthy suitor, George Murchison, whom she believes to be shallow and blind to the problems of race. Lindner, from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, is sent to offer the Youngers a deal, which the family refuses even after Walter Lee loses the rest of the money in a bad business deal. When the family’s future neighbors in Clybourne Park discover that the Youngers are African American, Mr. Social and racial themes are intermingled as the plot unfolds. However, Walter Lee takes the entire sum and makes an unwise decision-losing all of the money. Lena eventually gives him some of the money to put in the bank for his sister’s medical school tuition and the rest to use as he chooses. ![]() Lena’s son Walter Lee is determined to invest the money in a business. This would free her family from the cramped South Side Chicago tenement that she shares with her two children, daughter-in-law, and grandson. Lena Younger, a recent widow and the family’s matriarch, wants to use her husband’s insurance money to buy a home for her family. The story is based loosely on the experiences of Hansberry’s own family and portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African-American family living in Chicago’s South Side. ![]() The film received several prestigious accolades including two Golden Globe nominations and the “Gary Cooper Award” (awarded to Director Daniel Petrie) at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1961, Columbia Pictures released a film version-with the screenplay written by Hansberry-featuring the same cast. It was the first play, written by an African-American female playwright, to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first production directed by a black director (Lloyd Richards). CHARLESTON, SC – Footlight Players Theatre, the oldest continuously performing arts group in Charleston, is proud to present Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Henry Clay Middleton.Ī Raisin in the Sun originally premiered on Maat the Barrymore Theatre in New York City, and the original Broadway cast included Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Glynn Turman, John Fielder, Lonne Elder III, Ed Hall, Douglas Turner Ward, and Louis Gossett Jr.
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