February 26 – March 7, 2014
SHOWTIMES:
Weekdays, February 26-28 and March 4-7 @ 6pm
Saturday, March 1 @ 3pm & 7pm
Sunday, March 2 @ 3pm
WHERE:
Anne Campbell Black Box Theatre, Hobart Taylor Building
BUY TICKETS ONLINE: www.pvamu.edu/theatre
TICKETS: $5 Students/Faculty/Seniors; $10 General Admission
Reservations: theatre@pvamu.edu or Call (936) 261-3307 | For assistance with disabilities: (936) 261-3585
o Directed by Tre Garrett
o Technical Direction by Hardy L. Bates, Jr.
o Assistant Director: George Donaldson o House Manager: Cinnamon Buckhalter
o Costume Design by Lani Jae Harrison & Ya-Ya Smith
Set in Pittsburgh in 1936 during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano
Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family and an heirloom, the infamous piano. The
play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas
on what to do with the piano they own. The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who
wants to sell the piano to buy the land that his ancestors had toiled on as slaves while the
sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping the piano which is carved with the
faces of their ancestors.