“The Piano Lesson,” even in a somehow lackluster revival, has timely wisdom to impart - the wisdom of unresolved questions. Boy Willie is ambitious for a better future, but he’s also rash, reckless and fueled by a barely containable rage. She has settled quietly into a life of mourning. Berniece’s reverence for the past is both noble and imprisoning. Boy Willie wants to use the only thing his father had to give him so that he doesn’t have to similarly spend his whole life farming on someone else’s land.
Berniece is fearful of the ghosts that cling to the piano, but she has become the guardian of its legacy, which includes untold family trauma.
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