Lorraine Hansberry - Playwright at Work
6/4/2020 | 29m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
This ALL ARTS Vault episode features Lorraine Hansberry workshopping a new play in 1961.
This 1961 episode shows writer Lorraine Hansberry fresh off her success from "A Raisin in the Sun." We see a scene, directed by Lloyd Richards, from a play she's writing about Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. Her untimely death from pancreatic cancer at age 35 prevented her from finishing the play, but in this scene we see her mastery in creating art out of everyday life.
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ALL ARTS Vault Selects is a local public television program presented by WLIW PBS
Lorraine Hansberry - Playwright at Work
6/4/2020 | 29m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
This 1961 episode shows writer Lorraine Hansberry fresh off her success from "A Raisin in the Sun." We see a scene, directed by Lloyd Richards, from a play she's writing about Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. Her untimely death from pancreatic cancer at age 35 prevented her from finishing the play, but in this scene we see her mastery in creating art out of everyday life.
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