Boy Willie has come to Pittsburgh with his friend Lymon (Ray Fisher) to sell a trunkful of watermelons. However, it belongs to Berniece (Brooks) and her brother Boy Willie (Washington) and has become the focus of contention. The piano document the lives of a slave family and is now in Doaker’s (Jackson) living room. “The Piano Lesson” is one of the ten plays in Wilson’s cycle plays, also called The Pittsburgh Cycle, written to show the experiences of African Americans in the 20th century. Although the three actors all give fine performances, the true star of the drama is the elaborately carved piano that sits prominently on the stage. Jackson, Danielle Brooks or John David Washington. The true star of the revival of “August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson” isn’t Samuel L.
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