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The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land (Sutter's land) where his ancestors toiled as slaves. The sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping the piano, which shows the carved faces of their great-grandfather's wife and son during the days of their enslavement.
Berniece attributes the ghost’s presence to Boy Willie’s arrival and his disruptive intentions regarding the piano, as well as her suspicions that he killed Sutter. Boy Willie, however, disregards his sister's claims. Meanwhile, Lymon, seeking a fresh start, begins to develop feelings for Berniece.
The piano had been in the Sutter family’s possession for decades; in 1911, it was stolen by Berneice and Boy Willie’s father, who was then killed in retaliation. Willie thinks he has every ...
In 1936, Boy Willie and his friend Lymon travel from Mississippi to Pittsburgh, where he wishes his sister Berniece will give him the family's heirloom piano so that he can sell it to buy land from Mr. Sutter, a descendant of the family that once owned Willie's own ancestors as slaves. The piano itself had at one time belonged to the wife of ...
Boy Willie wants to get rid of the piano and build a more stable future for him and his family. Much of the cast has close ties to Wilson’s play, which first premiered in 1987 at Yale Repertory ...
Boy Willie insists it was the “Ghosts of the Yellow Dog,” introducing yet another supernatural dimension to the plot. Malcolm Washington gives us Sutter’s ghost, but leaves any other ...
Jackson goes back to Wilson’s beginnings; he played Boy Willie in the 1987 premiere of “The Piano Lesson” at the Yale Repertory Theatre and was the understudy for the role when the show ...
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a 1969 American Western film based on the true story of a Chemehuevi–Paiute Native American named Willie Boy [2] and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States. [3] The film is an adaptation of the 1960 book Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton.