Amra-LawsonChavanu (Beneatha) Terrance Smith (Walter Lee), & Ash’Lee P. The Youngers’ story is an all too familiar one of racial prejudice and white backlash. This Black family aims for a new life by moving from a tenement on Chicago’s South Side to a middle-class white neighborhood. Hansberry’s play directly questions the possibility of achieving the American Dream of upward mobility in the face of racial oppression.ĭirector Leontyne Mblele-Mbong immerses us in the Younger family’s cramped 50’s apartment, with Nina Simone barreling from the vintage radio. In his eloquent poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?” Lorraine Hansberry selected those words for the title of her 1959 masterpiece drama. Lorraine Hansberry Revival Reminds Us of Our Opportunities
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