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The Piano Lesson
NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON! Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award...
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NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON! Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. 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 perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work. 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.
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 12/01/1990
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780452265349
Audience: Young Adult
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.6
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70609 / Piano Lesson
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 44
About the Author
August Wilson was a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of the American theater. Most recently, Fences was adapted into a major motion picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington. The play won numerous awards for best play of the year in 1987 including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Among other awards, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85 and Joe Turner's Come and Gone was voted best play of 1987-1988 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson. August Wilson died in 2005.
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 12/01/1990
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780452265349
Audience: Young Adult
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.6
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70609 / Piano Lesson
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 44
About the Author
August Wilson was a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of the American theater. Most recently, Fences was adapted into a major motion picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington. The play won numerous awards for best play of the year in 1987 including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Among other awards, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85 and Joe Turner's Come and Gone was voted best play of 1987-1988 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson. August Wilson died in 2005.
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