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...play's plot follows the lives of a Black family living in Chicago's Southside ghetto. The family includes Mama Younger (Stephanie Wilford), her single daughter Beneatha Younger (Frettra Miller) and married son Walter Lee Younger (Kerrick Johnson) Living with the family are Walter's wife Ruth (Diane Cardwell) and son Travis (Dean Headley). They live in an apartment where Mama and her husband settled years ago, originally as a temporary abode for their small family. As the play opens, the family is waiting for insurance money coming from the death of Mama's husband. Tensions are high, because Walter...
...EVEN STRENGTH of the cast is remediable with each actor operating on the same level of stylization Frettra Miller is hilarious and convincing as Beneatha Younger, an idealistic high spirited, and insolent girl. She makes a wonderful foil for her brother, playing the role of the naive pretender with living accuracy. Diane Cardwell is solid as Ruth Younger, with the manners and look of a slightly worn but loving wife. Cardwell only has trouble with her role at two points late in the play, where she is supposed to show herself overcome by strong emotion. It seems...