Description: Full Length, Drama5 men, 2 womenTotal Cast: 7, Flexible Set THE STORY: Jefferson, an innocent young man, is condemned to death in backwoods Louisiana in 1948. At the trial his lawyer, trying to save his life, called him no more a human being than a hog. In prison, he acts like one, insisting that he will be dragged like that hog to his death in the electric chair. His godmother asks a schoolteacher to teach him to die like a man. The teacher, Grant Wiggins, struggling to quit his poor parish school and leave the South, faces both Jefferson and himself as execution day arrives. Ernest J. Gaines’ celebrated novel makes an engrossing, moving and finally devastating play for the stage.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Publication Year: 2001
Type: Play
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Lesson before Dying
Author: Romulus Linney
Publisher: Dramatists P.L.A.Y. Service, Incorporated
Genre: Drama
Topic: American / General
Number of Pages: 56 Pages
