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Sure Bet: A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney
Now thru March
20, 2011 | $17.00 - $20.00 | Detroit Repertory
Theatre | Website
In
Romulus Linney’s powerful adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines prize-winning
novel, a young man, Jefferson, is about to be executed for a murder he
probably didn’t commit. At the trial his lawyer, trying to save his
life, called him no more a human being than a hog. In prison, he acts
like one, insisting he will be dragged like that hog to his death in
the electric chair. His Godmother asks a schoolteacher to teach him to
die like a man. The teacher faces both Jefferson and himself as
execution day arrives. In 1948 Louisiana, the question is not whether
or not young Jefferson will be executed, but how he will face his fate.Ernest J. Gaines’ celebrated novel makes an engrossing, moving and finally devastating play for the stage.
