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Samuel L. Jackson to star in ‘The Piano Lesson’ in 2022
Danielle Brooks and John David Washington will also star in the Broadway revival.
March 5, 2021
August Wilson’s
The Piano Lesson will be revived on Broadway with a star-studded cast in 2022, it has been announced.
The Piano Lesson is part of Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, which earned Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Set in Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, a family argue about what to do with their piano. It’s an heirloom passed down through the generations, but with the family needing to survive, debate ensues about keeping the musical instrument. Should they sell the piano to buy the land, or keep it as a treasured artefact?
Following its Broadway run, the same cast will star in the play s film adaptation. This will be the third of Wilson s Pittsburgh Cycle plays to be adapted for film, following
Fences in 2016 and the recently released
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
The Piano Lesson is set in 1936 and features an ornately carved piano which, as the Charles family s prized possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece s exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy.
Sacha Baron Cohen played 60s activist Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin s
The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Your association with Abbie Hoffman goes back decades …
When I was 20, I was staying at the YMCA in downtown Atlanta researching a thesis on Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement of the 60s. Abbie Hoffman was one of a bunch of Jewish radicals who went down South to support voter registration for people of color. So I knew about him from the age of 20. Then, 13 years ago, I heard that Spielberg was making a movie about the Chicago Seven and, with characteristic chutzpah, I called him up and asked if I could audition. He was concerned that I wouldn t be able to do the accent because all he d seen me do was the first
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In the 19th century, African American literature was driven by narratives of slavery, many told from the perspective of escaped slaves such as Harriet Jacobs or Frederick Douglass. In the 1920s, as Black artists and intellectuals emerged following the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance produced a generation of authors who addressed issues of racism and segregation. By the middle of the century, Black authors played an important role in laying the foundatio