The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson, drama in two acts by August Wilson, produced in 1987 and published in 1990. The play, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990, is part of Wilson’s cycle about African American life in the 20th century. The action takes place in Pittsburgh in 1936 at the house of a family of African Americans who have migrated from Mississippi. The conflict centres on a piano that was once traded by the family’s...