Brooks’ Berniece has a regal watchfulness, a perfect scene partner to his quiet warmth and generosity. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano, while Berniece fiercely wants it to stay where it is, even if she cannot bear to play it.īrooks’ fierce strength is contrasted with Jackson’s gravelly, kind paterfamilias. And there, stage left, is a piano carved in great detail with the outlines of faces and bodies-the cause, in both past and present, of the fractured rafters. Doaker’s niece Berniece ( Danielle Brooks) lives in the house with her uncle and her 11-year-old daughter Maretha (Jurnee Swan), their peace shattered by the arrival of her brother Boy Willie (John David Washington) and his friend Lymon (the excellent Ray Fisher), who are in town to sell watermelons.
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