Raisin In The Sun Literary Analysis

Now some may argue if writers are not writing diverse characters, then I will have to change the nature of the character description and thus go against the playwright's true authenticity and vision. This is true, playwrights are still not writing plays that exactly reflect our nation as a whole. Most companies have a hard time finding plays that have the right number of women as women playwrights are few and far in between where men playwrights are abundant but male actors are not. Also, most modern plays have small casts due to the 2008 economic downturn and most producers were not interested in spending large amounts of money on casting large groups. This makes it far more difficult for modern productions to be produced or find, especially

Who has the most authentic vision, the playwright, the audience, or the modern American people who a show is supposed to represent? The playwright has the most accurate and authentic vision to be recreated plain and simple. Every word, every character movement, is meant to be there for a certain reason. The playwright has a certain aesthetic emotion they are presenting to the viewing audience and changing any part of the production changes this. You would not rewrite Raisin in the Sun with a white cast as it would change the historical and aesthetic context. The feelings of the play would be different than those presented or intended by the playwright. Certain playwrights take this above and beyond by suing if you choose to change a part of their script without their consent. Such as the Beckett estate where if you change even one small stage direction they will create a lawsuit over this change in the original script. Recently, the Beckett estate lost an Italian court case when two women were cast in Waiting for Godot as the fool characters, and the Beckett estate argued changing casting of men for women to be in the cast was changing the casting. They lost this case as the women dressed and presented themselves as men in the production still making them ‘men’ characters, in theory, thus the court ruled nothing had actually changed in the production. Usually, people lose these cases against the Beckett estate and other playwrights as they and their publishing firm have total control over who can and can not produce their works. Therefore in some cases, the playwright has the lawful right to have a production remain they way the originally wrote it, no matter how small a