The Ultimate Guide to The Piano Lesson 2024: What You Need to Know
Possessions that are not often used can be very valuable to their owners. It is not uncommon for people to keep family furniture, artwork, and other mementos. These pieces often have long stories of their own, and The Piano, an adaptation of August Wilson's play of the same name, uses the eponymous play as its starting point to tell a long and complicated tale that is poignant, surprisingly funny, and insightful. Family History. In 1936, young Willie and his best friend Lymon drive from Mississippi to the Pittsburgh house that his sister Berniece shares with their uncle Doker. Boy Willie has brought watermelons to sell, but he already has his eye on his next big money-maker: the family piano, which he hopes to use to make the money he needs to buy the land where his grandfather once lived as a slave. But Berniece is determined to keep the piano, which she never plays, while being haunted by the presence of a ghost she believes lives upstairs. This is the latest film adaptation of...