I highly recommend reading "Raisin in the Sun" prior to this to get a little more context; I think this would be very different seeing it versus reading it, perhaps easier to see. The characters have a lot of "chat time" that...well, it seems it could be tightened up and reworked a bit to make this clearer and cleaner...but then again, perhaps the point is to be a little murky and dirty, the topics of race, civil rights, racism, and gentrification have a thousand shades of gray. I'm always a bit hesitant about reviewing plays I've only read -- the live component is such an essential part that I wonder if I'd have a completely different reaction otherwise. But for me, this was a tale of two acts. I absolutely loved the first -- found the parallels with A Raisin in the Sun compelling. But then the second act felt obvious and over-familiar. Which naturally led me to wonder if an interesting performance might have elevated it to the level I saw in reading the first act. I would be curious to see it.
A companion piece to A Rasin in the Sun. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
—AMY
SO GOOD. Love the first act. Second act is great because of the way it was written.
—saro0ona
Really dynamic and interesting piece of theatre tackling racism and housing.
—jade
The first half was pretty good, the second half was awful
—Sinead
though this won the Tony, I think Wit is much better
—ppaauulliinnaa
