Lorraine Hansberry is best known for 'A Raisin in the Sun' — but as she lay dying, she wrote a play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in its rare revival.
For Kauffman, the play is a call to activism. Its characters are caught between cynicism and hope in a chaotic world, in both large and small ways. Rachel Brosnahan, who plays Iris, said she sees that, too. Iris is a would-be actress, engaged in a struggle to find her own identity and independence from her strong-willed husband.
"One of the things I really appreciate about Lorraine is her embrace of small change as powerful change," Brosnahan said. "Because unlike a lot of other plays, there's not such a clear beginning, middle and end to their journeys. It's really jagged." The characters are not the only thing in flux; the script is, too. After the Broadway production, there were four different published versions of the script, all edited by Robert Nemiroff.
Nemiroff's daughter, Joi Gresham, the estate's literary executor, closely collaborated with director Anne Kauffman to create the acting version for the Brooklyn production. They not only looked at the different published versions of the script, but also Hansberry's notes and drafts in Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research and Culture.
"We've kind of landed in this incredible creative method," said Gresham,"talking to one another, listening to Lorraine, listening to these different versions and trying to imagine where she would have gone with it."Brosnahan said there's one moment in the play she finds particularly touching, since it reflects Hansberry's too-short life."The line is: 'I am 29 and I want to begin to know that when I die, more than 10 or 100 people will know the difference.
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