Written by Romulus Linney
Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines
Directed by David Charles Goyette
Produced by African Continuum Theatre Company (Jennifer L. Nelson, Producing Artistic Director; David Charles Goyette, Associate Producer)
Set Design by Timothy J. Jones
Costume Design by Reggie Ray
Light Design by Dan Covey
Sound Design by David Lamont Wilson
Properties by Tracie Duncan
Production Photos by Cliff Russell
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Vivian Dionne Audain
Sheriff Guidry John W. Feist
Reverend Ambrose Keith N. Johnson
Paul Bob Lavoie
Jefferson G. Alvarez Reid
Grant Jefferson A. Russell
Miss Emma JoAnn M. Williams
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THE STORY: Jefferson, an innocent young man, is condemned to death in backwoods Louisiana in 1948. 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 that 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, Grant Wiggins, struggling to quit his poor parish school and leave the South, faces both Jefferson and himself as execution day arrives.