Lorraine Hansberry was inspired to write Les Blancs after seeing the US premiere of Jean Genet’s play Les Nègres (The Blacks). Her ex-husband, Robert Nemiroff, described her having a “visceral response” to Genet’s play, which she believed treated Africans like exotic ‘Others’. Hansberry died before completing the play, but Nemiroff decided to compile and edit the play from her draft manuscripts. Les Blancs opened on Broadway in November 1970 and ran for a month. It was then published in 1972 in a volume entitled Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry (which also includes
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