The piano lesson by august wilson ebook

Cancel Forgot your password? Showing all editions for 'The piano lesson'. Year 4 8 3 3 23 Show more Language English 54 Japanese 2 Swedish 1 Undetermined 1. Displaying Editions 1 - 10 out of First Prev 1 2 3 Next Last. The piano lesson by August Wilson. Print book : Drama. Beth Rohloff. Email Me. The video features commentary on the ways in which The Piano Lesson reflects the African American experience. The full version of this film is available through Academic Video Online see below for link.

Here, actors James A. A year-old, upright piano, decorated with totems in the manner of African sculpture, dominates the parlor. The play opens at dawn. Boy Willie, Doaker's nephew, knocks at the door and enters with his partner, Lymon.

Two have come from Mississippi to sell watermelons. Willie has not seen his sister Berniece, who lives with Doaker, for three years as he has been serving a sentence on the Parchman Prison Farm.

Willie asks his uncle for a celebratory drink: the Ghosts of the Yellow Dog have drowned Sutter in his own well. Willie intends to sell the family piano and use the money to buy Sutter's land, the land his ancestors once worked as slaves. Doaker, however, is sure Berniece will not part with the piano. Indeed, Avery Brown—a preacher who has been courting Berniece since her husband Crawley died—has already tried to get her to sell it. Willie schemes to get in touch with the prospective buyer himself.

Suddenly Berniece cries out off-stage, "Go on get away. She is convinced that her brother pushed Sutter into the well. Shaken, she refuses to cooperate with his plans. Three days later, Doaker's brother Wining Boy, a wandering, washed-up recording star, sits at the kitchen table discussing the recent events with the men.

Willie explains that some whites had tried to chase Willie, Lymon, and Berniece's husband Crawley from some wood they were pilfering. Crawley fought back and was killed while the other two went to prison.

The men reminisce about Parchman and sing an old work song. Doaker then explains the piano's history to Lymon. During slavery, a man named Robert Sutter, the recently deceased-Sutter's grandfather, owned the Charles family. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work.

The play's real music is in the language Wilson's most virtuosic writing to date.