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The Piano Lesson is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson. The Piano Lesson is the fourth play in Wilson’s The Pittsburgh Cycle. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one’s past.

author
August Wilson
character in play
Grace, Avery, Berniece, Boy Willie, Doaker, Lymon, Maretha, Wining Boy
genre
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
IBDB ID
7078
premiere date
1987-11-26
premiere place
New Haven Connecticut, Yale Repertory Theatre
premiere year
1987-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
The living room and kitchen of Doaker Charles's household. Pittsburgh 1936.
subject of play
The various members of an African-American family in the 1930s strive to overcome the past.

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