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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'">THEATER VOICES</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> will present a <u>staged
reading</u> of </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">A Lesson
Before Dying</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> by Romulus Linney </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'">Directed by Carol Charniga.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> </span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">NEXT WEEKEND ONLY! Performance dates are Friday,
May 16 at 8:00pm; Saturday, May 17 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm; and Sunday May 18 at
3:00pm at the Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue in Albany. Admission
is free. House opens half hour before curtain.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><i>A Lesson Before Dying </i>by Romulus Linney<i> </i></span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">is based on Ernest
J. Gaines' celebrated novel about life and justice in pre-civil rights
Louisiana. Set in the Louisiana backwoods in 1948<b><i>, </i></b>the play depicts the
story of two young black men. Jefferson, innocent and awaiting execution,
insists that he will be dragged to the electric chair like a hog. Grant, a
schoolteacher, owing to a debt of honor, visits the young man in jail and helps
him to face his death with dignity. Together, each man learns the power of
love, compassion and individual heroism as Jefferson accepts freedom as a state
of mind.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">            The
cast members are:</span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(26,26,26)">- Ulisses Gonsalves       - Grant Wiggins</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(26,26,26)">- Keyonn Everett           - Jefferson</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(26,26,26)">- Karen Christina Jones - Miss
Emma Glenn</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(26,26,26)">- Donald A. Hyman       - Rev. Moses Ambrose</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(26,26,26)">- Kim Wafer                 - Vivian Baptistery</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(26,26,26)">- Don Paul Shannon      - Sheriff Sam Guidry</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(26,26,26)">- Charles Owens           - Deputy Paul Bonin</span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in"><a href="http://www.theatervoices.org"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">www.theatervoices.org</span></a><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">  for
information about Theater Voices</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">Contact: </span><a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">info@theatervoices.org</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">or 518-438-5503</span></p>


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