Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry

출생 : 1930-05-19, Chicago, Illinois, USA

사망 : 1965-01-12

약력

Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. Her family challenged legal segregation, giving rise to the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. This might have inspired Hansberry to accomplish a first: The opening of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway on March 11, 1959, which was adapted to screenplay form for two feature films. No black female author had done the former before. The play's storyline about the Youngers, a black family trying out an integrationist vision of life in spite of societal racism, resonates with Hansberry's father's legal battle from a decade earlier. Although Hansberry had many writings published and wrote other plays, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window was her only other play that got a production during her life. In 1963, Hansberry received a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, leading to her untimely death at the age of 34.

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Lorraine Hansberry

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National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Writer
An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm.
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Self (archive footage)
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
Writer
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Self (Archive Footage)
This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights movement. Included are interviews with veterans of the theatrical world such as James Earl Jones and Ed Bullins.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Writer
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
Writer
Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.
태양의 계절
태양의 계절
Theatre Play
월터 리는 남의 집 부엌일을 도와주는 어머니 레나 영거와 아내 루스, 의대에 가려는 여동생 베니타, 그리고 어린 아들 트라비스와 함께 궁색한 아파트에서 어렵게 살고 있다. 그런데 월터 리의 아버지가 죽고 난 뒤, 어머니 레나가 보험회사로부터 10,000달러 수표를 받게 된다.늘 자신이 직접 사업을 해서 목돈을 벌고 싶었던 월터는 그 돈을 술집에 투자하고 싶어하지만 어머니는 월터의 말은 들으려고도 하지않고 위험한 슬럼 가에서 벗어나 백인들이 이웃한 곳에 있는 좋은 집을 사는데 3,500달러를 쓰고 나머지는 딸 베니타의 의대 학비 등에 쓰려한다.이에 화가 난 월터는 며칠 동안 집에도 들어오지 않고 직장에도 나가지 않고 술집에서 술만 마신다. 결국 어머니는 술집으로 월터를 찾아가 집을 사고 남은 돈 6,500달러를 주며 반드시 베니타의 학비에 일부를 쓸 것과 나머지도 현명하게 잘 쓸 것을 약속하고 모든 돈을 맡기는데...
태양의 계절
태양의 계절
Screenplay
월터 리는 남의 집 부엌일을 도와주는 어머니 레나 영거와 아내 루스, 의대에 가려는 여동생 베니타, 그리고 어린 아들 트라비스와 함께 궁색한 아파트에서 어렵게 살고 있다. 그런데 월터 리의 아버지가 죽고 난 뒤, 어머니 레나가 보험회사로부터 10,000달러 수표를 받게 된다.늘 자신이 직접 사업을 해서 목돈을 벌고 싶었던 월터는 그 돈을 술집에 투자하고 싶어하지만 어머니는 월터의 말은 들으려고도 하지않고 위험한 슬럼 가에서 벗어나 백인들이 이웃한 곳에 있는 좋은 집을 사는데 3,500달러를 쓰고 나머지는 딸 베니타의 의대 학비 등에 쓰려한다.이에 화가 난 월터는 며칠 동안 집에도 들어오지 않고 직장에도 나가지 않고 술집에서 술만 마신다. 결국 어머니는 술집으로 월터를 찾아가 집을 사고 남은 돈 6,500달러를 주며 반드시 베니타의 학비에 일부를 쓸 것과 나머지도 현명하게 잘 쓸 것을 약속하고 모든 돈을 맡기는데...