This chapter examines director Paulette Randall’s casting and rehearsal choices for productions of The Piano Lesson (1993) and Fences (2013). Assessing Randall’s rehearsal techniques and productions provides insights into how British practitioners connect with the specificity of Wilson’s plays and how they are received by audiences, which has repercussions for larger questions about staging African American plays in the UK. The chapter argues that one way that British practitioners tune into Wilson’s plays is by recognizing their themes as universal and by making parallels between African American and Black British experiences.