The Piano Lesson – August Wilson
Read the Play:
Read the Play:
Resources:
Resources:
Brief biography from PBS’s American Masters
The August Wilson Education Project from WQED
August Wilson’s 10-Play Century Cycle poster from WQED’s The August Wilson Education Project
DOCUMENTARY: August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Watch the Play:
Watch the Play:
Critical Articles:
Critical Articles:
“A piano and its history- family and transcending family” by Felicia Hardison Londre
“Call-and-Response: Parallel Slave Narrative in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson” by Devon Boan
“The Colored Man Can't Fix Nothing with the Law”: Carceral Spaces in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson by Anissa Janine Wardi
“The Dialectics of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson” by Harry J. Elam, Jr.
