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Piano Lesson |
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by August Wilson
ISBN: 0452265347
Pub. Date: October 1990
ISBN-13: 9780452265349
Format: Paperback, pp. 128
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Edition Description: REPRINT
Sales Rank: 6,561
List Price: $11.00
BBP Price: $8.80 Save 20% |
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August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays
about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his
second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his most
haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of the play stands the ornately
carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won
possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's
Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her
life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had
worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he
needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano
as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the
real "piano lesson," reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the
symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present.
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