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To be Young, Gifted, and Black

A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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To be Young, Gifted, and Black

A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

By: Lorraine Hansberry

The story of black playwright Lorraine Hansberry. Woven together from letters, diaries, notebooks and extracts from her plays by Robert Nemiroff, her husband and literary executor. Arranged chronologically but without sharp divisions between scenes. No single member of the cast plays Lorraine Hansberry - all in turn (both male and female) play her, as well as characters from her plays and the people who most affected her. Specifies three black actresses (one older), one black actor, two white actresses and one white actor. More people can be used with less doubling.

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124

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573616760

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9780573616761

A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

The Broadway revival of 'A Raisin in the Sun' was produced by Scott Rudin at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 3, 2014. The production was directed by Kenny Leon, with set design by Mark Thompson..."--Page [9].

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162

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Concord Theatricals

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0573614636

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9780573614637

Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

A Drama in Two Acts

By: Lorraine Hansberry,Robert Nemiroff

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Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

A Drama in Two Acts

By: Lorraine Hansberry,Robert Nemiroff

Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near alcoholic and his older brother a priest and traitor to his people. Forswearing politics and wanting only to return to his wife and child in England, Tshembe is drawn into the conflict symbolized by a woman dancer, the powerful Spirit of Africa who pursues him."--Page 4 of cover.

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122

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573611513

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9780573611513

Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

A Drama in Two Acts

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

A Drama in Two Acts

By: Lorraine Hansberry

This is the probing, hilarious and provocative story of Sidney, a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual, his wife Iris, an aspiring actress, and their colorful circle of friends and relations. Set against the shenanigans of a stormy political campaign, the play follows its characters in their unorthodox quests for meaningful lives in an age of corruption, alienation and cynicism. With compassion, humor and poignancy, the author examines questions concerning the fragility of love, morality and ethics, interracial relationships, drugs, rebellion, conformity and especially withdrawal from or commitment to the world.

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150

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573615411

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9780573615412

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

By: Lorraine Hansberry,Jim Cocola

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A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

By: Lorraine Hansberry,Jim Cocola

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1586634550

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9781586634551

A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

In south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a black chauffeur, dreams of a better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store. His mother, who rejects the liquor business, uses some of the money to secure a proper house for the family. Mr Lindner, a representative of the all-white neighbourhood, tries to buy them out. Walter sinks the rest of the money into his business scheme, only to have it stolen by one of his partners. In despair Walter contacts Lindner, and almost begs to buy them out, but with the help of his wife, Walter finally finds a way to assert his dignity.Deeply committed to the black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 35. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Hansberry was the youngest and the first black writer to receive this award.

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114

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Methuen Drama

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0413762408

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9780413762405

Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

A Drama in Two Acts

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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A Raisin in the Sun

The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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A Raisin in the Sun

The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

By: Lorraine Hansberry

Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry's script and a testament to her unparalled accomplishment as a Black artist. The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, with a screenplay by the author, Lorraine Hansberry, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival even though one-third of the actual screenplay Hansberry had written had been cut out. The film did essentially bring Hansberry's extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision. Now, with this landmark edition of Lorraine Hansberry's original script for the movie of A Raisin in the Sun that audiences never viewed, readers have at hand an epic, eloquent work capturing not only the life and dreams of a Black family, but the Chicago—and the society—that surround and shape them. Important changes in dialogue and exterior shots, a stunning shift of focus to her male protagonist, and a dramatic rewriting of the final scene show us an artist who understood and used the cinematic medium to transform a stage play into a different art form—a profound and powerful film.

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Penguin

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0451183886

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9780451183880

To be Young, Gifted, and Black

A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

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0573616760

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9780573616761

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

By: Lorraine Hansberry

Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson.

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290

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Vintage

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0679755322

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9780679755326

A Raisin in the Sun

The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

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Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

A Drama in Two Acts

By: Lorraine Hansberry,Robert Nemiroff

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0573611513

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The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

By: Lorraine Hansberry

From the award-winning author of A Raisin in the Sun, comes one of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater: an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice. "Rich and warm and funny... beautifully written.” —Los Angeles Times The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, along with A Raisin in the Sun, are milestones in the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination and the heart. “It is drama of such clarity that one may return to it again and again, and, I expect, emerge as deeply moved; and each time the more illumined…. Miss Hansberry, I am convinced, doesn’t know how to create a character who isn’t gloriously diverse, illuminatingly contradictory, heart-breakingly alive…. [A] personal odyssey of discovery, a confrontation with others in the process of which [Brustein] discovers himself.” —from the Foreword by John Braine With an Introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

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198

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Vintage

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0307815536

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9780307815538

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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Vintage

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0307815560

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9780307815569

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

By: Lorraine Hansberry

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The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

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Book's by Lorraine Hansberry

To be Young, Gifted, and Black

To be Young, Gifted, and Black

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

To be Young, Gifted, and Black

To be Young, Gifted, and Black

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

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