“Dead Man Walking,” the stage version of Sr. Helen Prejean's Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by the same name, was chosen as the Theater Program’s contribution to St. Bonaventure’s 150th Anniversary Celebration because of its strong social justice and nonviolence themes.
The play tells of Prejean's early experiences ministering to inmates on Louisiana’s death row, and focuses particularly on Prejean’s relationship with inmate Matt Poncelet, on death row for rape and murder.
Prejean came to campus for a lecture, “Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues,” and book signing a week after the performances.
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