![]() ![]() ![]() Her commentary on anti-Black sentiment within black communities was ahead of its time. The play tackles the complexity and intersectional nature of oppression, in particular the overlay of race and gender on systems of class. What is most astonishing about Hansberry’s text is the simplicity with which she layers issues that Australia and our global community are still struggling with today. ![]() Walter wants to invest in a small liquor store with two friends so that he can quit his day job as a chauffeur for a ‘rich, white man’, Beneatha has ambitions to attend medical school and Lena and Ruth dream of a white picket fence. The Younger family are in pursuit of their own American dream, and this money is their chance. Lena Younger (referred to as Mama, Gayle Samuels) has recently lost her husband and her daughter Beneatha (Angela Mahlatjie), son Walter (Ber Labonte), his wife Ruth (Zahra Newman) and their son Travis (Gaius Nolan) are eagerly waiting a $10,000 life insurance check that will change their lives. Now, over sixty years later it is the first time a Black, female playwright, Indigenous director (Wesley Enoch) and a primarily Black cast have come together to perform it on Australian soil.Ī Raisin in the Sun follows the five members of the Younger family. ![]() Premiering on Broadway in 1959 when Lorraine Hansberry was just 29, A Raisin in the Sun was the first Broadway show with a black, female playwright and the first with a Black director (Lloyd Richards). ![]()
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