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400 Years Of Racism Book Discussion: The Piano Lesson

Tue, Apr 04

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400 Years Of Racism Book Discussion: The Piano Lesson
400 Years Of Racism Book Discussion: The Piano Lesson

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Apr 04, 2023, 4:00 PM PDT – Apr 05, 2023, 6:00 PM PDT

Online via Zoom

About the Event

Our 400 Years of Racism reading and discussion series returns for a third year in  2023, featuring a collection of fiction and poetry, curated by Folio librarian Lillian Dabney. 

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Piano Lesson is a modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America.

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work.

At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into…

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