Sweden's First Major Production of A RAISIN IN THE SUN Addresses Country's Growth of Racism

"Racism used to be very settled, a curiosity," said Kayo Shekon an actor of Nigerian descent who plays Lena Younger in Sweden's first major production of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic, A RAISIN IN THE SUN.

"Now it's open."

"People are scared, and we are scared," she adds when explaining to the New York Times how the Internet has become a way for racist rhetoric to be openly, yet anonymously, exchanged.

Hansberry's tale of a financially struggling African-American family on the South Side of Chicago, chasing after deferred dreams of a better life, is firmly embedded into American culture, but a new production at Stockholm's National Theatre seeks to resonate with audiences who see race relations by their own country's viewpoint.

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