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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
EAN: 9780452265349
ISBN: 0452265347
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: December 01, 1990
Publisher: Plume
Sales Rank: 69223
Studio: Plume
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Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama that embodies the painful past and expectant future of black Americans.
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Rating:  - A masterpiece of American theater
August Wilson's "Century Cycle" presents the African-American experience in the twentieth century.In my opinion, "The Piano Lesson" is thebest of the lot.On its surface, it is a simple play - two siblings have different ideas about what to do with a piano one of them inherited from their father - one wants to keep it in her parlour in Pittsburgh (although she never plays it), the other wants to sell it in order to purchase his own piece of land in Mississippi.Like every masterpiece, however, ... Read More
Rating: - The Piano Lesson
Acclaimed playwright, August Wilson, pens The Piano Lesson, a story of a family living in Pittsburgh whose family ancestry traces back to slavery in the South. A piano is the cause of much contention particularly between two characters: Boy Willie and his sister, Berniece. You will find that Wilson was careful not to add too much depth to the other characters in the two act play.A reserved Berniece wants to keep the piano in the family.An over-exuberant Boy Willie insists that the piano be sold to ... Read More
Rating: - you can't sell your soul for money
Part of Wilson's century long tetra-cycle about African-Americans in Pittsburgh, this play is set in 1937. The effects of slavery are still palpable within the Charles family over 70 years after the Civil War.
Berniece Charles (age 35) and her younger brother Boy Willie (30) spar over whether or not to sell their greatest family heirloom: a piano that was traded for their great grandmother and grandfather. Berniece wants to keep the piano, which has the images of long-dead family members ... Read More
Rating: - August Wilson's Piano Lesson
This play is indeed a classic in African-American literature.Every high school and college student of every race should be encouraged to read and discuss the brilliant family dynamics that the play so skillfully portrays.The text is so well written that the reader has a vivid sense that they are actually watching, rather than reading the play.
Rating: - Excellent
August Wilson is the greatest American playwright.Not the greatest living American playwright, but the greatest, period.His best plays stand comparison with the best work of Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams.No American playwright has produced such a consistent body of work, and no American playwright has attempted a cycle with the scope and ambition of his series of plays.Wilson's subject is the Great Migration, the story of the African-Americans who emigrated from the southern ... Read More
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