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A Lesson Before Dying

5 Male, 2 Female

Romulus Linney from Ernest J. Gaines Price: $8.00

Set in backwoods Louisiana in 1948 - innocent young man Jefferson has been condemned to death.
Attempting to save his life, at his Trial his lawyer called him no more a human being than a hog
and so in prison Jefferson takes on the role, insisting that he’ll be dragged to the Chair
like a hog.  But his godmother asks impoverished teacher Grant Wiggins to persaude him to
die like a man. “A lesson in the transformative power of theatre” - Time Out New York


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