A brave, illuminating and powerful work that confronts the hope and tragedy of revolution. It debuted on Broadway in 1970. It was Lorraine Hansberry’s final work and she considered it her most important, as it depicts the plights of colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm. Age guidance is 15+.
Manhattan, New York, NY