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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry

A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season. Fast paced powerful touching and hilarious this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scenes mood and images recreates the world of a great American woman and artist Lorraine Hansberry. Uniquely and boldly the play dramatically weaves through her life experiences and the times that shaped her. The actors slip ingeniously into and out of a variety of challenging roles spanning her life and experiences to the ultimate confrontation when cancer strikes her. Includes brilliantly high lighted scenes from her plays as well as letters diaries poems and personal reminiscences. A major statement of the American Black experience.


ÿÞ"An extraordinary achievement!...A whirl of probing celebrating hoping laughing despairing and moving on...so brilliantly and tenderly alive." - The New York Times


"A milestone." - Time

Book Details

  • Publisher: Concord Theatricals
  • Publish Date: Jan 12nd, 2021
  • Pages: 140
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.30in - 0.32lb
  • EAN: 9780573616761
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: Entertainment & Performing ArtsMemoirsLiterary Figures

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