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Lena Waithe and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on How Pulitzer Winner ‘Purpose’ is in Dialogue With ‘A Raisin in the Sun’
Waithe and Jacobs-Jenkins discuss how Tony-nominated "Purpose" is in dialogue with Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun."
LENA WAITHE: The night of the Met Gala, I was home and watching the carpet and feeling such positivity, and I did something that I do every year: I revisited “A Raisin in the Sun” — the film, but I also have the text of the play as well. I hate when people do this to writers, but I think Lorraine sees herself in Beneatha, and in some ways Kara’s character, her biography most closely hews to mine. A lot of the energy of this play is about these two mothers, Claudine and Morgan, who are very different, but who I also think of, honestly, as the same person who just happen to be born in the exact wrong times to be able to see each other.
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