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A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

Fri. 01/20 | 2:00PM - Sun. 02/05 @ Houston Family Arts Center (map)

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Adapted by ROMULUS LINNEY from the novel by ERNEST J. GAINES Performed through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc . Directed by Lisa Garza Performs Jan 20- Feb 5, 2012 on the HFAC Garza Main Stage Summary: An African American teacher in backwoods Louisiana must learn to stop running away from his own despair before he is able to help a wrongly condemned death row inmate . (PG)
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    Written by playwright Romulus Linney and based on by Ernest J. Gaines' 1993 Pulitzer Prize nominated novel, A Lesson Before Dying presents a teacher who is openly contemptuous of his own students and an inmate who unwittingly has the power to transform not only his own life, but quite possibly save the soul of an entire town. more at culturemap.com