The Piano Lesson (TV film)

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television film

The Piano Lesson is a television film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a 1930s African American family torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history.

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Label	Occurrences
The Piano Lesson	8
The Piano Lesson (Broadway revival, producer)	1
The Piano Lesson (TV film) canonical	1
The Piano Lesson (play)	1
“The Piano Lesson” by August Wilson	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	television film ⓘ
adaptationOfGenre	stage play ⓘ
basedOn	The Piano Lesson (TV film) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Piano Lesson (play)
basedOnWorkBy	August Wilson ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
depicts	African American experience in the early 20th century ⓘ intergenerational trauma ⓘ migration from the rural South to the urban North ⓘ
distributionFormat	TV broadcast ⓘ
featuresMotif	ghosts and hauntings ⓘ music as a link to the past ⓘ property ownership ⓘ
featuresObject	carved upright piano ⓘ
genre	drama film ⓘ television drama ⓘ
hasCharacter	Avery ⓘ Bernice ⓘ surface form: Berniece Boy Willie ⓘ Doaker Charles ⓘ Lymon ⓘ Maretha ⓘ Sutter ⓘ Wining Boy ⓘ
hasCulturalContext	African American history ⓘ post-slavery United States ⓘ
hasSetting	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: Pittsburgh
hasTheme	ancestral memory ⓘ conflict between economic progress and cultural memory ⓘ family inheritance ⓘ spirituality and the supernatural ⓘ
hasWorkAttribute	Pulitzer Prize–winning source material ⓘ
mainSubject	African American family ⓘ cultural heritage ⓘ family conflict ⓘ heirloom piano ⓘ legacy of slavery in the United States ⓘ
medium	television ⓘ
narrativeFocus	dispute over selling a family heirloom piano ⓘ
narrativeLocation	family home ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
plotSummary	A 1930s African American family is torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history. ⓘ
portrays	respect for ancestors ⓘ struggle for economic independence ⓘ tension between siblings ⓘ
setInTimePeriod	1930s ⓘ
workType	screen adaptation ⓘ