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Piano Lesson
1. Character List
Doaker Charles - Berniece and Boy Willie's uncle and the owner of the household in which the play takes
place. Doaker is tall and thin and forty-seven years old. He spent his life working for the railroad. He functions
as the play's testifier, recounting the piano's history. Like Wining Boy, the other member of the family's oldest
living generation, Doaker offers a connection to the family's past through his stories.
Bill Cosby as Doaker
Charles… or Samuel L. Jackson as Doaker Charles
Boy Willie - Berniece's brash, impulsive, and fast-talking brother. The thirty-year-old Boy Willie introduces
the central conflict of the play. Coming from Mississippi, he plans to sell the family piano and buy the land his
2. ancestors once worked as slaves. By selling the piano, he avenges his father, Boy Charles, who spent his life
property-less.
Chris Rock as Boy Willie
Song by Alicia Keys – “If I ain’t got you”
Lymon - Boy Willie's longtime friend. The twenty-nine-year-old Lymon is more taciturn than his partner,
speaking with a disarming "straightforwardness." Fleeing the law, he plans to stay in the north and begin life
anew. An outsider to the family, he functions particularly in the beginning of the play as a sort of listener,
eliciting stories from the family's past. Obsessed with women, he will also appear prominently in his seduction
of Berniece, where he helps bring her out of her mourning for her dead husband.
3. Eddie Murphy as Lymon
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Berniece - Sister of Boy Willie. Unlike other characters, the stage notes for Berniece are somewhat sparse,
describing her as a thirty-five-year-old mother still in mourning for her husband, Crawley. She blames her
brother for her husband's death, remaining skeptical of his bravado and chiding him for his rebellious ways.
