The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to see what they have until tragedy strikes. Throughout the play these intrinsic flaws represent the imperfection of people. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window is the second and last staged play by playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of "A Raisin in the Sun". The play is a story about a man named Sidney, his pitfalls within his personal life, and struggles in Bohemian culture. The play premiered October 15, 1964 and received mixed reviews. It encompasses themes of race, suicide, homosexuality, and also focuses on individual characters learning to cope with life. Lorraine Hansberry,
Children of the Sun (play) Children of the Sun (play) Children of the Sun () is a 1905 play by Maxim Gorky, written while he was briefly imprisoned in Saint Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. Gorky appears to have written the play chiefly during the last eight days of his imprisonment, before his February 2, 1905 release, in response to the international protests over the imprisonment of such a prominent writer. It was nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but was universally understood to relate to contemporary events. The play was initially banned, but imperial authorities allowed