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Embarrassed? No. Pain, yes. Pain for me because I hate human misery and wrote a play which said so [A Raisin in the Sun). Pain about you, because you couldn't care less. And pain for my beleaguered family, surrounded by imposed frozen financing, in a city that says it wants repairs [June...
Negro Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, 28, whose Broadway hit, A Raisin in the Sun (TIME, March 23), was voted Broadway's best by Manhattan's drama critics, was trapped in an embarrassing predicament. Her play chronicles the many miseries and few joys of a poor Negro family in Chicago's ugly South Side slums. Last week the city of Chicago sued Lorraine and four others in her family for not correcting a long list of building-code violations (bad wiring, rats, falling plaster, etc.) in eight tenements owned by the Hansberrys. Location: the ugly South Side slums...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family lives in a tenement that is rarely touched by the sun, but the glow of passion, humor, fear and stirring dreams lights up each character...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family comes touchingly alive in the hands of a superb cast...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family comes eloquently and touchingly alive in the hands of a superb cast. Winner of this season's New York Drama Critics Circle award...