When you unleash the Ensemble Theatre on an August Wilson play, you should stand back. The tidal wave will knock you over and curl your hair. Ghosts haunt Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning playwright August Wilson's mammoth ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle, plays that cover each decade of the 20th century seen through...
When you unleash The Ensemble Theatre on an August Wilson play, you should stand back. The tidal wave will knock you over and curl your hair.
Once owned by the Mississippi plantation's matriarch, Mrs. Sutter, who had the faces of her slaves carved into the woodwork, the old piano now sits unplayed in the home of those very descendants, the Charles family. It casts its spell when Boy Willie , sharecropper and recently released from prison, arrives in Pittsburgh to reclaim the piano and sell it so he can buy the property where his ancestors were enslaved.
Uncle Doaker , former railroad cook, in whose house Bernice and the piano reside, is the avuncular tie to the past and the referee among the siblings. Bernice's staunchest ally, he knows the painful history of the upright and its significance to the family. Boy Willie's accomplice and former prison inmate,
Avery is a preacher wanna-be if he can find a place to preach. Solid and forthright, he woos Bernice, who's almost on the verge of saying yes, as long as her demons and memories of her dead husband can be mollified. Avery's the one who's asked to perform the exorcism of old man Sutter. And then there's Grace, the good-time city gal , who entices both Boy Willie and Lymon for as long as she can. Once she realizes the house is haunted, she's outta there.
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