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December 4, 1994

Season 44

01. 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.

2h 0min
December 4, 1994

02. 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.

2h 0min
February 5, 1995

03. 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.

2h 0min
April 23, 1995