Juilliard Drama Presents August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" at Stephanie P. McClelland Theater

Juilliard Drama Presents August Wilson's The Piano Lesson Written by August Wilson Directed by LisaGay Hamilton (Group 18) In the midst of the Great Depression, Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh with a truck filled with watermelons, a dream of buying his own land, and a complicated relationship with the past. As he battles his sister, Berniece, over the sale of their inherited piano, old traumas resurface. In August Wilson’s own words, The Piano Lesson asks: “Can you acquire a sense of self-worth by denying your past?”