A Raisin in the Sun
Raisin in the Sun, A
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
First Performance: 1959, New York
Published: 1959
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Youngers' living room, Chicago, late 1940s–50s
Cast: 7m, 3f, 1 child (m)
Lena Younger (‘Mama’) lives in cramped conditions in a poor area of Chicago with her family: her daughter Beneatha, a would-be medical student; her son Walter Lee, a chauffeur with aspirations to making his fortune; and his wife Ruth and son Travis. Mama is determined to use the $10,000 life insurance from her late husband as down payment on a house in a good neighbourhood. Walter, however, would like to invest money in a liquor store. Mama rejects what she sees as his gambling with the money. She is also worried about Beneatha, who shows no interest in a rich suitor, preferring to go out with a...
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