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'I want to take the audience further than they'd like': Kwame Kwei-Armah on Beneatha's Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah

Continuing the story of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the writer and director aims to create change with a reflection on today's culture wars about race As we get ready to open Beneatha's Place at the Young Vic theatre in London, it has been beautiful to dance again with the genius that is Lorraine Hansberry. She was an Afrofuturist whose plays spoke to what was happening at the time and things that were …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AM on July 5, 2023

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