Reading Piano Lessons at the moment. It’s laugh out loud funny. A big contrast to MA Rainey’s Black Bottom which ended in a note of powerlessness and despair at the lack of change.
Samuel L Jackson played one of the major characters in the original production and you can see today’s actor playing it well. Would have loved to have seen original production. Reading the cast list of the first few plays made me realise both the lack of variety of roles that existed, exist? for black actors, roles of real depth and meat and pain and joy and shade. Complexity in other words. Also made me look at some of these actors in a different light. These people didnt just appear in the cosby show, roc, daytime american soaps.
