Before March this year, I'd never seen a Lorraine Hansberry play and seeing two in a month - Eclipse's touring
A Raisin in the Sun and the National Theatre's
Les Blancs - absolutely blew me away. Both will rank very highly in my end-of-year list but more than that, I enjoyed finding my own way into loving Hansberry's work. It's all very well being told someone is good (even when that someone is my mum, who has ranked
Raisin... as one of her favourite plays for a while) but I much prefer forming these opinions for myself and now I can hand-on-heart agree that Hansberry's was a superb talent.