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A Raisin in the Sun

2024
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This education pack is designed for teachers of Drama A Level and BTEC Performing Arts students and is geared towards the live theatre review and practitioner study. This pack is written from a theatre maker’s perspective and we hope it provides some interesting insights into how a production like A Raisin in the Sun is created and performed. Within this pack there is information about specific design elements alongside resources and ideas of how you might further explore the themes and issued raised within this inspiring and thought provoking piece of theatre.

In a rented apartment on Chicago’s South Side, the Younger family is full of hope, dreams, grief, and big plans. Their beloved father has died, and the money from his life insurance policy could change their lives.

Mama wants to put down roots in a home of her own. Her daughter Beneatha has her heart set on becoming a doctor. But her son Walter Lee thinks the money is his to spend — and he’s willing to sacrifice his values and his family to get what he wants. Each must face what it means to escape the confines of a segregated society. How do you create a meaningful life in a world designed to keep you down?

Cast

Doreene Blackstock as Lena

Joséphine-Fransilja Brookman as Beneatha

Cash Holland as Ruth

Solomon Israel as Walter Lee

Gilbert Kyem Jnr as George

Kenneth Omole as Joseph/ Bobo

Jonah Russell as Karl

Creatives

Writer: Lorraine Hansberry
Director: Tinuke Craig
Set Designer: Cécile Trémolières
Costume Designer: Maybelle Laye
Wigs Hair and Make-up Designer: Dominique Hamilton
Composer & Sound Designer: Max Pappenheim
Lighting Designer: Joshua Pharo
Movement Director: Sarita Piotrowski
Fight & Intimacy Director: Haruka Kuroda
Voice & Dialect Coach: Aundrea Fudge
Associate Director: Phillippe Cato
Design Associate: Ruta Irbite
Lighting Associate: Luke Haywood
Casting Director: Lotte Hines

Literary Trustee: Joi Gresham

Additional downloads

A Raisin in the Sun Education Pack