Notes from the director:
Claude Debussy once noted that "music is the silence between the notes." Wilson, very much influenced by the blues, clearly understood this and used it quite effectively in his plays. As the director, it is my job to uncover such "unspoken" moments, to explore the potential for stage action and significance in the silence between the lines. The Piano Lesson insists that the characters fully understand their past--as individuals, as a family, and as a race--as a necessary component of moving forward into the future. "You have to know your history," Wilson once said. "Then you'll have a purposeful presence in the world."
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