August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as and the pulitzer prize-winning,. In his second pulitzer prize-winner, wilson has fashion...August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as and the pulitzer prize-winning,. In his second pulitzer prize-winner, wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of his play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles Family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's pittsburgh home.