Season 44

1. Return of the Native

Adaptation of the classic novel by Thomas Hardy. Eustacia Vye is a willful, passionate enchantress whose desire to escape her lonely rustic life thrusts her into two doomed relationships.

1994-12-04 • 120 min

2. The Piano Lesson

Adaptation of the stage play by August Wilson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, the story centers on an ornately carved 80-year-old upright piano, a family heirloom co-owned by a proud widow and her forceful brother, Boy Willie. Boy Willie's determination to trade the piano for Mississippi farmland triggers an emotional battle.

1995-02-05 • 120 min

3. Redwood Curtain

Adaptation of Wilson's stage play. Geri Riordan is a teenage concert pianist of Vietnamese-American heritage who has been trained by her adoptive father. Sudden personal and professional tumult prompts Geri to visit her understanding aunt, who lives amid a California redwood forest that is also home to a troubled Vietnam veteran.

1995-04-23 • 120 min