A Lesson Before Dying
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 18, 2000
Closed Oct 22, 2000
Opened Sep 18, 2000
Closed Oct 22, 2000
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The Signature Theatre Company kicks off its All-Premiere Celebration with the New York premiere of Romulus Linney's A Lesson Before Dying, adapted from Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name. Linney, who was the Signature's founding playwright-in-residence, adapts the best-selling novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story centers around two young black men, each in his own way trapped in a small Louisiana town in the 1940s. Condemned to die in an electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, Jefferson gives up on everybody, including himself. His grandmother enlists the help of a disillussioned schoolteacher, and the two men teach each other about being a man, about heroism, and about living--and dying--with dignity. Kent Thompson directs.
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Since their positions on education are of blaring interest to Al Gore and George W. Bush, both of the presidential candidates might want to turn themselves into walking promotion campaigns for Romulus Linney's A Lesson Before Dying. The play, which makes a bold and moving statement about the link between learning and dignity, is an adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines' book of the same title, which won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award. Yes, members of whose-ever constituency, here's a vote-getting narrative that says in no
uncertain terms: It's not power, not position, not clothes that makes the man. It's education.
Gaines' story, which Linney simplifies for the stage but doesn't a[...]