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2007-2008 Season
Dead Man Walking

Nov. 8 -11, 15-18
By Tim Robbins based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean
Directed by Valerie Rae Smith

About the Show …
Tim Robbins’ stage adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean’s best-seller follows a Catholic nun as she attempts to give spiritual counsel to a death row inmate. The play confronts the complexities of forgiveness as well as the morality of capital punishment.

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Check out these cast Interviews!

http://media.messiah.edu/theatre/Stephanie_Interview.wsx

Interview with Stephanie Leh, who plays Sister Helen Prejean
http://media.messiah.edu/theatre/Bryant_Interview.wsx

Interview with Bryant Vance, who plays Matthew Poncelet

                                       
groupwithSisterPrejean.jpg DMW cast picture by xxblackberryjazzxx The Cast Meets Sister Prejean!

Miller Auditorium
Nov. 8-10, 15-17 at 8 p.m.; Nov. 11 & 18 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $5 students, $10 adults



About faculty director Valerie Rae Smith …
Valerie joined the faculty in 2000. She received her BA in Theatre/Education from Taylor University, Her MA from Miami University, and her Ph.D. in Theatre History, Literature and Criticism from Tufts University. As a practitioner, Valerie is a member of The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, The Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the American Society for Theatre Research. In addition to teaching theatre at Tufts University and Boston College, Valerie served as Artistic Director for Circles of Girls, a pilot performing arts program for at-risk adolescents in Boston. Valerie teaches theatre history; dramatic literature, criticism and theory; gender and performance studies; acting, and directs in a variety of theatrical genres. Valerie directed the spring 2006 Mainstage production of Noises Off. Recent stage credits include The Vagina Monologues at Harrisburg’s Open Stage.
 

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