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A Raisin In The Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff
Synopsis
A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season.
Fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious, this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scenes, mood and images recreates the world of a great American woman and artist, Lorraine Hansberry.
Uniquely and boldly, the play dramatically weaves through her life experiences and the times that shaped her.
The actors slip ingeniously into and out of a variety of challenging roles spanning her life and experiences to the ultimate confrontation when cancer strikes her.
Includes brilliantly high lighted scenes from her plays as well as letters, diaries, poems and personal reminiscences.
A major statement of the American Black experience.
Press Reviews
"An extraordinary achievement!...A whirl of probing, celebrating, hoping, laughing, despairing and moving on...so brilliantly and tenderly alive."
— The New York Times
"A milestone."
— Time
Publication
To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Samuel French .
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