The piano lesson
Characters
MR. THOMAS – Piano teacher – early to mid-thirties.
LUKAS – his student – is about ten years old.
MRS. SCHACHNER – his mother – around forty years old.
MR. SCHACHNER – her husband, a banker – around fifty years old.
THE STRANGER WOMAN
Location: The living room of a villa.
ACTION
Behind the elegant facade of a grand bourgeois villa, a merciless power struggle erupts during a seemingly ordinary music lesson.
When the tyrannical father, a cold-blooded banker, storms into his ten-year-old son's music room to demand absolute performance, the situation escalates. Deeply buried family traumas, forbidden desires, and the mother's psychological suffering brutally erupt between the empathetic piano teacher and the domineering patriarch.
A chamber drama about the destructive pressure of capitalism on the private sphere, the family system, and the vulnerable soul of a gifted child.
The piano lesson was broadcast as a radio play by Polish Radio.