Although many recent black dramas have contested this with images of a more celebratory kind of identity, it remains a standard trope, as proved by Kwame Kwei-Armah's 2013 play, Beneatha's Place , which he directs himself at the Young Vic , where he is artistic director. In it he channels, among other things, his own experiences of living and working in the United States between 2011 and 2018. An intertextual tribute to African-American culture, Kwei-Armah's story is rooted in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun , which in 1959 was the first play by a Black woman to be staged on Broadway.

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