![]() He has come north with a truckful of watermelons. ![]() In the first scene, Boy Willie storms in, in a furious bluster, with plans of his own. Shes aspiring to city life, trying to teach her daughter to play the piano even though she herself has given it up. Its 1936 in Pittsburgh, and Berniece lives in this house with her uncle Doaker, her daughter, and the prized musical instrument of the title, her family having recently made its way up from the South in the midst of the Great Migration. In the play, the characters pasts enter by way of Bernieces brother, Boy Willie. August Wilsons drama deals directly in ghost stories, and this revival seems especially haunted internally and meta-theatrically toiling under the weight of the past. ![]() Its an appropriate sort of place to be filled with memories of the dead, and when Danielle Brookss Berniece wakes up after the curtain rises, theres a fluttering projection of a spirit slipping away from her. ![]() The set of The Piano Lesson is all posts and beams, no walls and ceilings, and some of those bones look like theyve been cleaved apart. ![]()
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