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Juilliard Drama Presents August Wilson's The Piano Lesson
Written by August Wilson
Directed by LisaGay Hamilton (Group 18)
Juilliard Drama launches the fourth-year actors’ season with August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning play, directed by alum LisaGay Hamilton (Group 18), who was a member of the original Broadway cast.
In the midst of the Great Depression, Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh with a truck filled with watermelons, a dream of buying his own land, and a complicated relationship with the past. As he battles his sister, Berniece, over the sale of their inherited piano, old traumas resurface. In August Wilson’s own words, The Piano Lesson asks: “Can you acquire a sense of self-worth by denying your past?”
August Wilson's The Piano Lesson runs from October 7 to 10.
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