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Dreamcatcher
Opening night of Soulpepper’s A Raisin in the Sun
By Ava Baccari, Photography courtesy of Soulpepper Theatre Company
Years and years ago (like 1951) African American poet Langston Hughes asked a point-blank question: What happens to a dream deferred? While flashbacks from grade nine English class prompt us along to subsequent questions- does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?– director Weyni Mengesha stops here, taking the audience through a spectacularly contrived mulling-over of this notion on stage for the Soulpepper production of A Raisin in the Sun, which opened last night.
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