"What happens to a dream deferred?"
Lorraine Hansberry gives us a glimpse of the answer in her acclaimed mastepiece, A Raisin in the Sun. Premiering in 1959, Hansberry's award-winning drama centering on the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago defined a generation, and changed American theater forever. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about dreams; what it means to dream big, to lose faith in your dreams, and to discover new dreams. It is also a story about family. We meet the Younger family the day before they are getting a $10,000 insurance check from the death of the father, Walter Younger. We watch as different members of the family have different ideas of how to use the money. Tensions increase as each member of the family tries to get their own way, eventually threatening to break apart their foundation completely.
