...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
The Piano Lesson (Theatre)
- 23 statements
- 3 feature instances
- 4 referencing feature instances
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | type |
TVTItem | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | label |
The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | page |
ThePianoLesson | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | comment |
The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by August Wilson. It is the fourth play in his ten-play "Pittsburgh Cycle".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Pittsburgh, 1936, the Hill District. The Charles family is a black family that in the relatively recent past has moved to Pittsburgh from Mississippi. Bernice, a 35-year-old widow, lives with her 11-year-old daughter Maretha in the home of her uncle Doaker. The family's prized possession is a grand piano, carved with the faces of their recent ancestors. The piano was formerly owned by the Sutter family, who a few generations back also owned the Charleses as slaves. In 1911 Bernice's father Charles and his brothers Doaker and Wining Boy, who believed they were entitled to the piano for their work on it and their family's decades of unpaid labor, stole it. As a result Bernice's father was killed.Bernice's loud, brash brother Boy Willie arrives from Mississippi after recently getting out of prison. Boy Willie wants to buy the Sutters' land, now for sale after the latest Mr. Sutter's death. To raise capital, he wants to sell the piano. Bernice flatly refuses to sell the piano, which after all is a family heirloom. Tensions mount as the siblings argue over the piano—tensions exacerbated by the appearance of Sutter's ghost in the household.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Samuel L. Jackson appeared in the original production as Boy Willie. See also Fences, another play in the Pittsburgh Cycle. | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | fetched |
2019-03-23T15:25:04Z | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | parsed |
2020-06-25T09:24:43Z | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_111ba5f1 | type |
Banishing Ritual | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_111ba5f1 | comment |
Banishing Ritual: To banish Sutter's ghost, Avery attempts this, reading from the Bible and saying "Get thee behind me, Satan" and the like. But it fails, as the ghost battles Boy Willie upstairs. It takes Bernice sitting down at the piano and playing, something she hasn't done since her mother's death, to banish the ghost. It also banishes Boy Willie, who makes his peace with Bernice keeping the piano and leaves. | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_111ba5f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_111ba5f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_111ba5f1 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_a4905771 | type |
Double-Meaning Title | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_a4905771 | comment |
Double-Meaning Title: There's piano lessons; Boy Willie wonders why Bernice doesn't teach anybody if she's so determined to hold on to the piano. But there's also the lesson that the family is learning from the piano, about staying connected to your past. | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_a4905771 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_a4905771 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_a4905771 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_name | comment |
||
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_name | |
| The Piano Lesson (Theatre) / int_name | itemName |
The Piano Lesson (Theatre) |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.