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Love to all, Lorraine

Recounts the life of the late playwright, Lorraine Hansberry. Focuses on her emotional state during significant periods and includes her struggle to write during a losing battle with cancer.

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  • "Recounts the life of the late playwright, Lorraine Hansberry. Focuses on her emotional state during significant periods and includes her struggle to write during a losing battle with cancer."@en
  • ""'Love to all, Lorraine', is a one-woman one act play on the life of the late playwright and Civil Rights activist Lorraine Hansberry. Written and performed by Elizabeth Van Dyke, 'Lorraine' weaves together, in a train of consciousness, significant periods of the playwright's life that include memories of being raised in a family that refused to be humbled by racial prejudice, learning African History from W.E.B. DuBois and working for Paul Robeson, marrying a man of Jewish heritage and struggling to write during a losing battle with cancer. ... 'Lorraine' depicts a woman struggling for dignity for herself and her people during a seminal period for the American Civil Rights movement."--1983 Peabody Awards entry form excerpt. The play is set in the home of Lorraine Hansberry as she prepares to enter the hospital for cancer treatment."@en

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  • "Historical re-creations"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Television"@en
  • "Biographies"@en

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  • "Love to all, Lorraine"@en