<div dir="ltr"><br><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">THEATER VOICES will present a staged reading of</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney</font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">Directed by Carol Charniga.</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><br></font></div><br><u>THIS WEEKEND ONLY! </u>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.<br>
<br>A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney is based on Ernest J. Gaines' celebrated novel about life and justice in pre-civil rights Louisiana. Set in the Louisiana backwoods in 1948, 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.<br>
<br> The cast members are:<br><br>- Ulisses Gonsalves - Grant Wiggins<br><br>- Keyonn Everett - Jefferson<br><br>- Karen Christina Jones - Miss Emma Glenn<br><br>- Donald A. Hyman - Rev. Moses Ambrose<br>
<br>- Kim Wafer - Vivian Baptistery<br><br>- Don Paul Shannon - Sheriff Sam Guidry<br><br>- Charles Owens - Deputy Paul Bonin<br><br><br><a href="http://www.theatervoices.org" target="_blank">www.theatervoices.org</a> for information about Theater Voices<br>
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