BEAUMONT, TX – Common Ground Performing Arts Ensemble continues its 2009-2010 season at the Jefferson Theatre with Romulus Linney’s “A Lesson Before Dying”. This play was adapted from the novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The novel won the 1993 National Book Critics Award; it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Oprah Winfrey chose it to be part of her Oprah’s Book Club in 1997. Common Ground has chosen this play for presentation during February because of its portrayal of the African-American experience.
“A Lesson Before Dying” centers on a young African-American man wrongly sentenced to death in a deeply prejudiced 1940s. Through a reluctant school teacher, he is taught how to live and die with grace and dignity. “A Lesson Before Dying” is about the ways in which people insist on declaring the value of their lives, and it addresses the basic predicament of what it is to be a human being striving for dignity in a world that often denies it.
Directed by Jo Ethel Larkins, this production features local talent from the Golden Triangle.
Dress rehearsal and press interviews February 24, 2010, 7 pm.
“A Lesson Before Dying” opens February 26, 2010 at 7 pm; and February 27, 2010, 2 pm and 7 pm. Final show Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 4 pm. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster Box Office by calling 800-745-3000, online at ticketmaster.com, or the Beaumont Civic Center Box Office by calling 409-838-3435 or online at bmtciviccenter@ci.beaumont.tx.us. Ticket prices are $10 students/seniors; or $15/adults.
For more information, contact Melody Chappell at 409-838-2644 or mchappell@wellspeyton.com; Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more at Civic Center Box Office.
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