{"product_id":"beneatha-s-place","title":"Beneatha’s Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlongside Bruce Norris's \u003ci\u003eClybourne Park,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBeneatha's Place\u003c\/i\u003e imagines a life for Lorraine Hansberry's characters from \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun \u003c\/i\u003ebeyond the confines of her play. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeneatha moves from 1950s America to Lagos with her Nigerian husband and then, in the second act, set in contemporary America, has become a college Dean of Social Sciences. Through this journey, \u003ci\u003eBeneatha’s Place\u003c\/i\u003e challenges today’s culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Student Edition, with an introduction and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje, offers a lens on the play's relationship to Hansberry's 1959 play and \u003ci\u003eClybourne Park; \u003c\/i\u003eunpacks its engagement with the post-independence politics in Africa and pan-Africanism; considers how other plays to have dealt with these themes; and compares responses to the US and UK productions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe edition includes original interviews with Kwame Kwei-Armah and actor Cherelle Skeete, who played the character of Beneatha in the UK premiere of the play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54455479828824,"sku":"9781350497726","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350497726.jpg?v=1767957320","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/beneatha-s-place","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}