A Raisin in the Sun

Archive Listings for A Raisin in the Sun

T01065459233 (ROYALEX09) Corporate Sponsor Continental Airlines. Producer Royal Exchange Theatre. Director Michael Buffong. Design Ellen Cairns. Lighting Johanna Town. Sound Steve Brown. Performer Starletta DuPois. Performer Ray Fearon (Walter Lee Younger). Performer Jenny Jules (Ruth Younger). Performer Tracey Ifeachor. Performer Damola Adelaja. Performer Simon Coombs. Performer Tom Hodgkins. Performer Ray Emmet Brown. Performer Lyndon Rhoden. Performer Damani Holness. Performer Vivien Nkundibiza. Performer Claudien Nkundibiza.
27 Jan 10 to 20 Feb 10	Royal Exchange, Manchester :: V491 listing details L985612822
T01014626023 (TOUR05) Producer Young Vic Theatre Company. Director David Lan. Design Francis O'Connor. Lighting Tim Mitchell. Sound Crispian Covell. Performer Lennie James. Performer Novella Nelson. Performer Nicole Charles. Performer Jim Dunk. Performer Noma Dumezweni. Performer Javone Prince. Performer Mark Theodor.
4 May 05 to 7 May 05	Hackney Empire, Outer London :: V309 listing details L2079279561
26 Apr 05 to 30 Apr 05	Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool :: V536 listing details L1033006307
19 Apr 05 to 23 Apr 05	Theatre Royal, Plymouth :: V895 listing details L01688647443
12 Apr 05 to 16 Apr 05	Belgrade Theatre, Coventry :: V153 listing details L445460583
6 Apr 05 to 9 Apr 05	The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L0262327176
18 Feb 05 to 26 Mar 05	Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Outer London :: V315 listing details L01633993252
T01812001209 (YOUNGVIC01) Supported by the Foundation for Sport and Arts and The Mackintosh Foundation.Producer Young Vic. Producer Salisbury Playhouse. Director David Lan. Design Francis O'Connor. Lighting Tim Mitchell. Performer Novella Nelson. Performer Cecilia Noble. Performer Daniel Anthony. Performer William Chubb. Performer Adrian Fergus Fuller. Performer Lennie James. Performer Ekananu Kirimi. Performer Faz Singhateh. Performer Dwayne Thomas. Conductor o Uhiara.
1 Jun 01 to 30 Jun 01	The Young Vic, Inner London :: V245 listing details L0875656930
11 May 01 to 26 May 01	Playhouse, Salisbury :: V923 listing details L0450985182
Other listings
28 Apr 99	Cottesloe (National Theatre), West End :: V375 listing details L1651656381

Details

Play :: Walter Lee Younger has a dream - a dream that will get him and his family out of their tiny apartment in Southside Chicago. Money is coming, and with it will come freedom, dignity and ease. As the dream collapses a new man is born. And a new dream...Originally produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was the first successful Broadway play by a Black writer. Hansberry was the youngest person and the first African-American to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. When she was eight years old, a brick was thrown through the window of Lorraine Hansberry's home with such force that it embedded itself in a wall. The Hansberrys, a successful African-American family, had moved into an all-white area. This event and the legal fight that followed inspired her lifelong struggle for racial equality - and her most well known, groundbreaking and influential work A Raisin In the Sun.

Author

Lorraine Hansberry