In her
play ,uses an interesting mix of the very specific and the very general in
her stage directions.
At the very start of her play, she states,
The action of the
play is set in Chicagos Southside, sometime between World War II and the present.
The play's setting, Chicago's Southside, is quite specific. But the
play's time period could be any time between around 1949 and now. This gives the production a
wide range of choices for how it wants to present the play for the audience.
The specific setting of the play is the home of the Younger family. As described by
Hansberry, their home has a comfortable feel, but it is also tired and worn out.
Weariness has, in
fact, won in this room. Everything has been polished, washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too often.
All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the veryof this room.
This description sets a strong atmosphere for the tale that is
about to be told. It sets up the feeling of...
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