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...ONLY PROBLEM with Patrick Bradford production of A Raisin in the Sun stems not from the staring which is virtually flawless, but from the perfect pitch and shape of the play itself Since A Raisin in the Sun was written 25 years ago the question arises as to whether such a play can be possible today. The topical concerns abortion and housing in narrow terms, and hypocrisy and racism in broader are no less relevant today. But the themes would not, in all likelihood, receive the same warm and disinterested treatment Probably no one, and certainly few Black Americans, could...
...Erikson asserts that love is, theoretically and potentially, universal. In quaintly secular fashion, Erikson approaches an idealization of the power of love not unlike the old Christian attitude, implicitly forwarding the social health of love as the chief criterion for judging a culture. Hansberry seems to have constructed A Raisin in the Sun from the critical vantage point of the possibility of universal love. While the result is staggering, one immediately wonders if it is always possible to respond so feelingly to life and art. Are there some feelings which are less valid than others? Are there people whose feelings...
...Michael's first Epic solo album, Off the Wall, that started to set the barns all burning. His excessive prominence within the family was always manageable, one senses, but not without stressing the importance of perspective. "Michael is pretty stable," his mother says. "I think it's his raisin'. We used to talk to the boys about getting big heads. None of them is better than anyone else. One might have a little more talent, but that doesn't make you better. You're just the same as anyone else. It's just a job. Other people might be doctors...
...current season lacking in relevance to our audience, I call to your attention both Curse of the Starving Class and A Raisin in the sun, both acknowledged classics of American theater. In addition Yerma and Love's Comedy, while not necessarily well known scripts, are written by known, quality, playwrights--it seems eminently appropriate to present the community with these plays which might otherwise remain in library stacks somewhere, keeping to themselves the richness they offer. I flatly deny that Broadway, commercial, success has anything to do with the refusal of past proposals--nor should it be a reason...
Herein lies the problem. Each year the members of the board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club choose which shows will appear on the Mainstage. This fall, we saw Curse of the Starving Class and Yerma; scheduled for the spring teen are A Raisin in the Sun and Love's Comedy. In spite of how good each of these plays may be, and how worthwhile it may be to produce them, there is a problem with this schedule. It lacks the one thing Harvard prides itself on: diversity. The plays are certainly different, and yet, not different enough. There...