The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson is a play by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. It was the 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama. The play concerns a brother and a sister arguing about whether they should sell their family piano. It represents the 1930s in The Pittsburgh Cycle.

Boy Willie, a big duesch bag and a sharecropper from the South, wants to sell his family's ancestral piano to buy land. His Pittsburgh sister Berniece insists on keeping it. The piano has the carved faces of their great-grandfather's wife and son who were sold in exchange for the piano during the days of enslavement. Under August Wilson's supervision, the play was made into a made-for-TV movie in 1995. Charles S. Dutton plays Boy Willie and Alfre Woodard plays Berniece.

External links

• The Piano Lesson at IMDb
• South Coast Repertory articles about the play