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DOAKER CHARLES Forty-seven years old. He’s Boy Willie and Berneice’s uncle. Berneice and her daughter live in his house in Pittsburgh. He works as a railroad cook.
BERNEICE: Boy Willie’s sister. She holds him responsible for the death of her husband, Crawley, whom she still mourns after three years.
BOY WILLIE: Thirty years old. He’s brash and crude. He’s planning to sell the piano with the carvings to buy the land on which his family were slaves.
MARETHA: Berneice’s eleven year old daughter. She is learning to play the piano.
LYMON: His buddy and partner in money-making schemes. He’s fleeing the law and plans to stay up North. He’s twenty-nine.
AVERY: Berneice’s suitor. He’s an honest man with some ambition. He has become a preacher and is working to secure a storefront church.
SYRACUSE STAGE EDUCATION
WINING BOY: Doaker’s older brother. He’s fifty-six. He’s a musician and a gambler, but most of his success is in the past. GRACE: A woman who Boy Willie and Lymon have picked up in a bar.