Reimagining a Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays

Winner, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner, 2012 Tony Award for Best PlayWinner, 1974 National Book Award for Philosophy and ReligionIn 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun energized the conversation about how Americans live together across lines of race and difference. In Reimagining "A Raisin in the Sun," Rebecca Ann Rugg and Harvey Young bring together four contemporary plays--including 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Clybourne Park--that, in their engagement with Hansberry's play, illuminate the tensions and anxieties that still surround neighborhood integration.Although the plays--Robert O'Hara's Etiquette of Vigilance, Gloria Bond Clunie's Living Green, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors, and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park--are distinct from one another in terms of style and perspective on their predecessor, they commonly feature characters who are forced to closely examine, and sometimes revise or abandon, their ideas concerning race and their notions of social an