A Raisin In the Sun: A Drama in Three Acts Original Script.

"What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Does it Dry Up Like A Raisin in the Sun?" Rare Original A Raisin in the Sun Script; Lorainne Hansberry's Copy with her ownership signature

A Raisin In the Sun: A Drama in Three Acts Original Script.

HANSBERRY, Lorraine.

Item Number: 90373

New York: Hart Stenographic Bureau, 1959.

Lorriane Hansberry’s copy of the original script for the groundbreaking play which made its debut on Broadway in 1959. Quarto, bound in the original post binder. With Hansberry’s ownership signature to the title page, “Lorriane’s Copy” and her notes throughout. The title page notes: * Title pending permission of Mr. Langston Hughes. With his poem “A Dream Deferred” which inspired the title of the play in full on the second page. In near fine condition with both covers detached. An exceptional example displaying the very origin of this groundbreaking work.

The first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, this groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Winner of the Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year, it has been hailed as a "pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre" by Newsweek and "a milestone in the American Theatre."

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