Beneatha’s Place

<p>Alongside Bruce Norris's <i>Clybourne Park,</i> <i>Beneatha's Place</i> imagines a life for Lorraine Hansberry's characters from <i>A Raisin in the Sun </i>beyond the confines of her play. <br><br>Beneatha moves from 1950s America to Lagos with her Nigerian husband and then, in the second act, set in contemporary America, has become a college Dean of Social Sciences. Through this journey, <i>Beneatha’s Place</i> challenges today’s culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past.<br><br>This Student Edition, with an introduction and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje, offers a lens on the play's relationship to Hansberry's 1959 play and <i>Clybourne Park; </i>unpacks its engagement with the post-independence politics in Africa and pan-Africanism; considers how other plays to have dealt with these themes; and compares responses to the US and UK productions.<br><br>The edition includes original interviews with Kwame Kwei-Armah and actor Cherelle Skeete, who played the character of Beneatha in the UK premiere of the play.</p>