Sense and Sensibility Playing Now Through March 12!
Historic Community Theatre in Wayland, MA

August Wilson's
The Piano Lesson
By August Wilson
Directed by Michelle M. Aguillon
Friday, July 22 8pm
Saturday, July 23 2pm & 8pm
Thursday, July 28 & Friday, July 29 8pm
Saturday, July 30 2pm & 8pm
Thursday, August 4 & Friday, August 5 8pm
Saturday, August 6 2pm & 8pm
Tony and Pulitzer winner August Wilson, one of the top dramatists of the 20th century, wrote The Piano Lesson as part of his 10-play “Century Cycle” (which also includes Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) that tells of the African-American experience through the decades. This Pulitzer-winning play, although modest in its storytelling, displays Wilson’s uncanny ability to capture a snapshot of humanity, in a supernatural-laced story set in 1936 Pittsburgh. Boy Willie, wanting to be his own boss and to own his own land, wants to sell a piano that resides in his sister’s home. This piano has huge family and cultural significance, and his sister Berniece refuses to part with it. Their fight culminates in a stand-off in which the family and the community gather to give witness, as the siblings bear the weight of history and eventually come to honor it.
FEATURING:
Doaker Charles .............
Boy Willie ......................
Lymon ............................
Berniece ........................
Maretha .........................
Avery Brown ..................
Wining Brown ...............
Grace .............................
Jerry Halfhide
Trevor Gerard Frederick
Claude Del
Lisa Miller-Gillespie
Valentina Joseph
Andrew Calvagno
Paul Benford Bruce
Chinedu Ibiam