Money, whatever, be the amount, brings happiness to a lower middle class society, but together with that, family disputes are unavoidable because every member in the family have their own plans how the money should be invested for good results.

Half a century old Pulitzer Prize winner American drama ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (Kismis Ko Biskun) performed at the Nepal Academy on Wednesday also reflected the story from an African-American family that matches with the Nepali society.

The story saunters around the 10,000 dollars received from an insurance company after the death of Mr Younger. The money from the insurance wobbles his son Walter to invest in liquor business while daughter Beneatha wants the money be invested for her studies who aims to be a doctor. However, Mother or Mr Younger likes it to be invested to buy a new house, a dream she had for years.

Driver Walter (player by Shailendra Simkhada), with the investment aims to raise the economic status of his family through his business venture but in vain. Walter has typically reflected the ambitious youths of present Nepal. His wife Ruth (Rekha Thapa) is symbolically the pillar for tackling the family disputes with tactics.

Daughter Beneatha (Dipa Pandey), a somewhat flighty college student, tries to find her identity and embraces the “back to Africa” philosophy of a Nigerian friend Joseph Asagai (Jeevan Sathi Basnet).

Mrs Younger (Sakuntala Sharma) manages to buy a home with some money but the house is in an all-white neighborhood which Beneatha and Ruth appreciates. Their racist future neighbours hire a man named Karl Lindner (Ramesh Adhikari) as a “Welcoming Committee” to try to buy them out to prevent the neighbourhood’s integration. However, Walter takes a stand and refuses to be intimidated or bought out; in this, he stops deferring his family’s dreams and helps them advance.

The central idea of the play is concerned with combating the myth of black contentment, which has been the story for most lower middle class Nepalis especially from the indigenous and Dalit communities. The stress of poverty is vividly portrayed through the tight quarters as five people are squeezed together onstage into a one room apartment.

Originally, the play is by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959. In Nepal Academy, the play will be staged until March 25 at 3:30 p.m.