A Raisin in the Sun a new production of the play by director/producer Pauline Harris. This version restores the character of Mrs Johnson and a number of scenes that were cut from the Broadway production and subsequent film, with the following cast: The play opened April 6, 2017, at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., directed by Tazewell Thompson, with the following cast: The 2010 Bruce Norris play "Clybourne Park" depicts the white family that sold the house to the Youngers. The first act takes place just before the events of "A Raisin in the Sun", involving the selling of the house to the African American
The Sun in a Net the realism and novelty of its urban setting, and the hints at some social and political taboos were not lost on the audience, and cannot have been lost on the censors. "The Sun in a Net" pushed the envelope and showed artists, and the audience at large, what the authorities could now be pressed to permit. Besides Štefan Uher’s effort to get past the strict requirements of Socialist Realism, the director was inspired by some of the trends current in (Western) European cinema and culture in the 1950s. Among them were traces of Italian neorealism, the film's low-key style, a