Josh Wroblewski lighting designer
Lighting Design for Live Entertainment
The Piano Lesson
by August Wilson
Presented by:
A Public Fit/College of Southern Nevada
April 2023
Direction: Jason Nious/Ann Marie Pereth
Lighting Design: Josh Wroblewski
Scenic Design: Michele Anderson
Costume Design: Karen Cornejo
Sound Design: Alan Holton
Photography: Richard Brusky
It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family’s rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated. -Concord Theatricals