A Raisin in the Sun family; the second act takes place 50 years later. The 2013 play by Kwame Kwei-Armah entitled "Beneatha's Place" follows Beneatha after she leaves with Asagai to Nigeria and, instead of becoming a doctor, becomes the Dean of Social Sciences at a respected (unnamed) California university. The two above plays were referred to by Kwei-Armah as "The Raisin Cycle" and were produced together by Baltimore's Center Stage in the 2012–2013 season. Season 1, Episode 3 of "Strangers with Candy" is based around a school production of "A Raisin in the Sun", and features an excerpt from the 1961 movie as well
A Place in the Sun (film) A Place in the Sun (film) A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled "An American Tragedy". It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory, and the other a beautiful socialite. Another adaptation of the novel had been filmed once before, as "An American Tragedy", in 1931. "A Place in the Sun" was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael