Season 44 Episodes
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.
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.
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.
