{"id":7384,"date":"2004-04-28T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/a_raisin_in_the_sun.html"},"modified":"2004-04-28T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T23:14:58","slug":"a_raisin_in_the_sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/a_raisin_in_the_sun.html","title":{"rendered":"A Raisin in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new production on Broadway. Peggy Noonan reflects on a particular moment<\/a><\/p>\n

An important moment in the plot is when a character announces she is pregnant, and considering having an abortion. In fact, she tells her mother-in-law, she’s already put $5 down with the local abortionist. It is a dramatic moment. And you know as you watch it that when this play came out in 1960 it was received by the audience as a painful moment–a cry of pain from a woman who’s tired of hoping that life will turn out well.<\/p>\n

But this is the thing: Our audience didn’t know that. They didn’t understand it was tragic. They heard the young woman say she was about to end the life of her child, and they applauded. Some of them cheered. It was stunning. The reaction seemed to startle the actors on stage, and shake their concentration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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