![]() What The Piano Lesson finally seems to ask is: "What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?" ![]() ![]() However, on finishing his play, Wilson found the ending to stray from the empowered female character as well as from the question regarding self-worth. The Piano Lesson received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Ī Romare Bearden painting, The Piano Lesson, inspired Wilson to write a play featuring a strong female character to confront African-American history, paralleling Troy in earlier Fences. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle. The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson. The living room and kitchen of Doaker Charles's household. The various members of an African-American family in the 1930s strive to overcome the past. For the film adaptation, see The Piano Lesson (film). ![]()
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