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<\/a>On October 23, the sophomores in Mrs. Acerbo\u2019s English class had the opportunity to see the play A Raisin in the Sun<\/em> by Lorraine Hansberry at the Westport Country Playhouse. The author of this play, Lorraine Hansberry, is an African American writer who attended college at the University of Wisconsin for two years, which led her to be interested in the arts and made her peruse studies at numerous other schools.\n
\nShe then moved to New York City and started working at Freedom, an African American newspaper, where she wrote articles on various topics such as civil rights, portrayal of African Americans in the media and African history. She began writing A Raisin in the Sun<\/em> in her mid- twenties. It took the producer, Philip Rose, more than a year to raise money for rehearsals. They could not find a Broadway theater to run air it, so they sent the play to New Haven and Philadelphia to run tryouts. Soon after the play was offered at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York and opened on Broadway in March 1959. It ran for almost two years.<\/p>\n
The play A Raisin in the Sun<\/em> is about an African American working- class family who was trying to peruse nothing other than the American Dream. The play portrays the various challenges faced by African Americans in the 1950\u2019s. In this play, the family of five receives a well-awaited $10,000 insurance check. Each member of the family wants to spend the money a different way. This causes a lot of conflict between the characters because Walter (played by Billy Eugene Jones) wants to spend it on an investment in a liquor store and Beneatha (played by Edena Hines) would like some if it to go towards college because she dreams of becoming a doctor. As for Mama (played by Lynda Grav\u00e1tt), she is not too sure what she wants to spend it on.<\/p>\n Until, she decides to spend some of it on a house in a white neighborhood. The people already living in the neighborhood are not comfortable living with a family of African Americans so they try to bribe the Younger family not to move in with more money than they paid for the house. The Youngers end up moving in anyway, but on the way to moving, there were many obstacles. The family had to work together even in the toughest of times to overcome them.<\/p>\n The cast at the Westport Country Playhouse did an amazing job bringing the play to life. The set was very realistic and the cast did a great job using the same set through out the whole play. The entire audience was tuned in to every little thing happening and would not stop talking about it afterwards. The employees at the Westport Country Playhouse were so friendly and welcoming. Overall, the play was definitely worth seeing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Carly Colon ’15 On October 23, the sophomores in Mrs. Acerbo\u2019s English class had the opportunity to see the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry at the Westport…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}