![]() ![]() We last saw the “Orange Is the New Black” actress on Broadway in the musical “The Color Purple,” and she brings that same fiery defiance to Wilson’s play that she did to the song “Hell No!” in 2015.Ī petrified Berniece admits she has been seeing Sutter’s specter in the hall, and Doaker witnessed him sitting at the piano. Brooks is riveting as she groundedly gives the wrenching speech. “Mama Ola polished this piano with her tears for 17 years,” she booms at Boy Willie. The piano, like the land, has absorbed decades of difficult but essential memories. Julieta Cervantesīut Berniece, adamantly, will not allow her brother to take the instrument, which is weighty not only because of its size but its past. Danielle Brooks is Berniece in “The Piano Lesson” on Broadway. But the only way he can afford the plot is by selling the cherished piano. He’s not in PA on vacay, though - he’s got news: Sutter, the man who owns the Mississippi land Boy Willie’s family once worked on as slaves, is dead, and Boy Willie has the chance to buy it. 47th St.Įspecially for Washington, who has been terrific in subdued roles in films such as “ BlacKkKlansman” and “ Tenet,” a gregarious ball of live-in-person energy like Wilson’s Boy Willie is just the ticket.īoy Willie is a sharecropper, living in 1936 with his eyes unblinking on the future, who travels up from Mississippi to see his sister Berniece (Brooks) and uncle Doaker (Samuel L. ![]() 2 hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission. ![]()
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