「在美國戲劇史上，從未有過如此真實地展現黑人生活百態的舞台劇，」詹姆斯鮑德溫在1959年《陽光下的葡萄乾》於百老匯首演前不久如此評論道。
本版本呈現了漢斯貝裡這部里程碑式作品的完整修復版，並附有羅伯特·內米羅夫的導言。
洛蘭漢斯貝裡這部屢獲殊榮的戲劇，講述了一個生活在芝加哥南區的掙扎求生的工人階級家庭的希望與抱負，它深深觸動了美國黑人的心靈，並永遠地改變了美國戲劇。劇名取自蘭斯頓休斯的詩作《哈林區》中的一句，這句詩警示人們，夢想的擱置可能會「像陽光下的葡萄乾一樣乾癟」。
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
