What's a good summary for August Wilson's The Piano Lesson?
Also, who were the original cast members, and what roles did they play? Where was the play first produced? Did it win any awards? When did August Wilson write it in his 10-play cycle (what plays came before and after)?
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama explores the way the Charles siblings relate to their own family's history—in very different ways.
The Piano Lesson premiered at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1987. It debuted on Broadway in 1990, to critical acclaim. S. Epatha Merkerson portrayed Berniece Charles and Charles S. Dutton played Boy Willie Charles.
''The Piano Lesson'' won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1990, as well as the Best Play of the Year by the New York Drama Critics' Circle.
The following are references used for the above information (including the original ''New York Times'' review of the play):
''The New York Times'':
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DB133BF934A25757C0A966958260
''The New York Times'':
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDE153DF930A25757C0A966958260
The University of Iowa:
http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/february/022208piano_lesson.html
Wilson's 10-play cycle began with ''Gem of the Ocean'' and concluded with ''Radio Golf.'' ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' and ''Seven Guitars'' are the "bookends" for ''The Piano Lesson.'' This article from the ''San Diego Union-Tribune'' offers a fantastic timeline, so you can really see the progression of each of the plays:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051003/news_1n3wilson.html
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M$is a good summary for The Piano Lesson
the content includes
- The Piano Lesson: Introduction
- August Wilson Biography
- Summary
- Themes
- Style
- Historical Context
- Critical Overview
- Character Analysis
- Essays and Criticism
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M$Set in Pittsburgh in 1936, Boy Willie battles his sister Berniece over the future of a treasured heirloom: a piano, carved with African-style portraits by their great grandfather, an enslaved plantation carpenter. He wants to sell it to buy land. She insists that the instrument carries too much family history to cast aside. The issue of whether or not to sell it cuts deeply and raises questions about honoring the past or moving into the future."-Arden Theatre Company
"August Wilson wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning account of how the poison planted by slavery can still haunt a family, generations later, as two siblings clash over how they will remember and acknowledge their past."-Oberlin College, Department of Theatre and Dance
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