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The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson
August Wilson

The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". The Piano Lesson received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”

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