August Wilson

Drama

5m, 3f

Interior

Winner! 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

It is 1936 and Boy Willie arives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated.

"Like other Wilson plays, it seems to sing even when it is talking."—The New York Times

"A lovely tragi-comedy.... Haunting as well as haunted."—New York Newsday

"Wonderful.... A play of magnificent confrontations."—New York Post

FEE: $100 per performance.