A Lesson Before Dying at Memorial High School

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Romulus Linney, based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines

Memorial High School

Authors

• Romulus Linney

This play is set in 1948 in backwoods Louisiana, where an innocent young black man awaits execution. A schoolteacher, trying to teach him to die like a man, learns an important lesson himself.

This play is recommended for age 13 and up.