Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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1936 Like most of the plays in Wilson's cycle set in different decades of the 20th century “The Piano Lesson” takes place in Pittsburgh. The year is 1936, and the great migration that brought thousands of African-Americans north is well under way.
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Read More »After a traumatic fall that has left half the city in a harried funk, the Signature Theater comes roaring to the rescue this week with a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Piano Lesson” that feels like a generous gift: the stage equivalent of a free Thanksgiving turkey, amply stuffed and surrounded by all the trimmings. This immensely satisfying show, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, an actor who has become an expert interpreter of Wilson’s work, brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theater can be. Strictly speaking this savory theatrical feast, which opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center on Sunday night, is not being served gratis. But as with all of the company’s regular-season productions, tickets are just $25, making this not only one of the best shows in town but also one of the best bargains. Even at Broadway’s hyper-inflated prices, this terrific production would be well worth investing in. A more full-hearted and wide-ranging depiction of the harsh, heady jumble of life — the diurnal beauty and the overriding mystery, the shadowing pain and the exalting pleasure — can hardly be imagined. Like most of the plays in Wilson’s cycle set in different decades of the 20th century “The Piano Lesson” takes place in Pittsburgh. The year is 1936, and the great migration that brought thousands of African-Americans north is well under way. Almost all the characters in “The Piano Lesson” are in uneasy transition, pushing forward into an uncertain future even as they are tugged backward by the past, caught up in the process of discovering or reinventing themselves in a country that still offers scarce opportunities for black Americans. Boy Willie (Brandon J. Dirden), whose arrival in Pittsburgh sets the play in motion, is determined to grab the big chance that has come his way.
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Read More »Music is an incredibly important theme throughout the play. It seems pretty darn fitting then that a musical instrument is at the center of it all. Not only does the piano touch on every theme in the play, but Berniece and Boy Willie's battle over it is the play's central conflict.
Boy Willie starts off this song that the inmates sing on Parchman Farm, the infamous prison farm. Lymon, Wining Boy, and Doaker all join in and sing along. They all ended up on Parchman Farm at one point so they know the song well. By including this song in the play, Wilson documents an important form of African-American music, the work song. This kind of song developed from the African tradition of call and response, in which one person sang a line and a chorus of others answered back. African-American slaves sang these songs to help endure the drudgery of slavery. The mostly black prisoners of Parchman Farm sang these types of songs for pretty much the same reason. These prison songs are often thought of as a particular type of work song.
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