Aurora Theatre Company presents the third Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a story about a family, their home, and the pressures of the outside world, in 1958; the play asked audiences to look at what they believed and could believe. When the show opened on Broadway in 1959, she “changed American theater forever,” said The New York Times. During that same year, Swiss writer Max Frisch adapted his radio play, The Arsonists (playing at Aurora April 5-May 12) into a stage play, also telling a story about a family, their home, and pressures from the outside world. Aurora Theatre Company Education Director Michael Mansfield hosts this moderated discussion series, examining the similarities and differences in the households of these two ground-breaking plays.
Script Club is free and open to the public.
510.843.4042 x316
7:30pm to 9:30pm, Aurora Theater 2081 Addison Street
Coinciding with the publication of John Mercer's book, Swearing in English: Tall Tales at Shotgun. Hear the stories, buy the book and have it signed by the author. $15. 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org
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8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison