![]() From what transpires on stage in her “Piano Lesson,” Wilson wrote a play about a young widow and mother, Berniece, who is not only surrounded by testosterone but swept away by it - until the very last moment.īerniece treasures the prized family heirloom of an exquisitely carved piano and wants to keep it where it belongs: in the family’s possession in her living room. If Richardson Jackson saw the dearth of female characters as a problem, her direction turns it into a major flaw. ![]() On the topic of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play’s only lead female character, Richardson Jackson says, “Berniece is surrounded by all of this testosterone.” The director goes on to reveal that after seeing the first production of the play, at Yale in 1987, she asked the playwright, “Where are all the women? Where are all the parts for women?” Take LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s interview last week in the New York Times regarding her direction of the first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” which opened Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. ![]() Sometimes it’s not a great idea for artists to speak to the press on the eve of an opening. ![]()
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