![]() ![]() It’s not as if the play needed help to feel relevant like all great works it has proved itself incessantly timely. How, then, to make it new? Apparently, on the evidence of this staging, by furiously underlining its subtleties and downplaying its conventional strengths, a reversal of standard procedure that produces a sometimes stunning, sometimes stunted result. Yet on Tuesday the Public opened O’Hara’s take on Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”: not merely a revival but a further “exploration” of an earlier production of a 1959 classic that is arguably as well known today as it was epochal when it debuted. ![]() ![]() Leaving his recent “ Long Day’s Journey Into Night” aside, Robert O’Hara doesn’t typically direct revivals nor, leaving Shakespeare aside, does the Public Theater typically produce them. ![]()
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