Malcolm Washington Adapts Wilson's Play

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‘The Piano Lesson’ First Look: How a Stage Classic Turned Into a “Haunting” Directorial Debut from Malcolm Washington

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August Wilson ’s Pulitzer-prize winning play, The Piano Lesson , is the second feature film adaptation of the play.

August Wilson 's play follows the Charles family, a Black family in post-depression era 1936 Pittsburgh , wrestling with their ancestral legacy and how to reckon with the intergenerational trauma of slavery.

The Piano Lesson stars John David Washington , Samuel L. Jackson , Michael Potts , Ray Fisher , and Sam Jackson reprise the roles they played in the Tony -nominated Broadway revival of the musical.

John David directed his brother as Boy Willie , the central agitator who is willing to forsake his family’s history and sell their piano, if it means improving his station in life.

Malcolm Washington directed The Piano Lesson .

The climactic finale of the play is a call upon the ancestors and an exorcism, of sorts.

It also came from a place of grave significance for Washington , who had a fear of death for a long time.

“So much of our history is lost in time,” Washington says.

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