Eclipse Theatre Company, Belgrade Theatre-Coventry, Sheffield Theatres

'Never before, in the entire history of theatre, has so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage' (James Baldwin).

The Younger family are living in a small apartment that fit them when they were half their number: their hopes, dreams and aspirations on hold for years within the four walls and around the kitchen table. But when a chance to change the course of their future emerges, the pressures of opportunity threaten to overwhelm them.

A ferocious portrayal of working class life on the cusp of the civil rights era, Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark drama bursts with intense family conflict, racial politics and social consciousness.