A Raisin in the Sun October 19, 1959, and closed on June 25, 1960, after 530 total performances. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast comprised: Ossie Davis later took over as Walter Lee Younger, and Frances Williams as Lena Younger. Waiting for the curtain to rise on opening night, Hansberry and producer Rose did not expect the play to be a success, for it had already received mixed reviews from a preview audience the night before. Though it won popular and critical acclaim, reviewers argued about whether the play was "universal" or particular to African-American experience. It was then produced on tour. "A Raisin in
The Sun in a Net their school. Uher followed "The Sun in a Net" by two more films with the same author-screenwriter Alfonz Bednár and cameraman − Stanislav Szomolányi, later professor of cinematography at the University of Performing Arts, Bratislava: "The Organ" ("Organ," 1964), and "Three Daughters" ("Tri dcéry," 1967). The original music score in "The Sun in a Net" is by the composer Ilja Zeljenka, who also worked with Uher on "We from Study Group 9-A," and went on to work with him on six more films. Uher's and Szomolányi's "She Grazed Horses on Concrete" ("Pásla kone na betóne," 1982) has remained one of