Dreams are never as simple as black and white. That's the message imparted by Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 stage drama "A Raisin in the Sun," which opens tonight at Springfield Contemporary Theatre's Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza. Says director Rick Dines, "It takes place in a tenement apartment in southside Chicago in the early 1950s. And we have three generations (of an African-American family) living in a 3-room apartment... and it's cramped quarters." There had been six people living there until recently, "and they've been living there going on 40 years"--the mother and father of the Younger family; their daughter; and their son, his wife, and their own small son. Daddy has passed away, his life insurance payout is coming in, "and the family has never known that much money at one time." Among the conflicts that arise in the play: how to invest this windfall in a way that will most benefit the family. "The hope is that all their dreams can be realized when this insurance money comes in
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