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August Wilson
1987
Play
Drama
Although The Piano Lesson is a play and has no narrator, it is worth noting that much of the family's history and insight into other characters' motivation is provided by the two older characters in the play, Doaker and Wining Boy Charles, the uncles of the two main characters.
The title The Piano Lesson is taken from the name of a 1983 collage, Piano Lesson, by the African American artist Romare Bearden. It is believed to show the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, who grew up in Pittsburgh, sitting for a piano lesson. But the title also reflects the main conflict in the play, which centers around a piano a brother and sister have inherited from their mother.
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