Get the Play

Tim Robbins and Maureen Fenlon, O.P. read the play together Getting your school involved in the DEAD MAN WALKING School Theatre Project is easy! Tim Robbins and Sister Helen Prejean write in their March 2005 Invitation to American College Students, that “in entrusting this play to you,” the only requirements are that participating schools:

• not produce the play for commercial gain

• involve at least two other disciplines or departments (sociology, theology, humanities, criminal justice, etc.) in a simultaneous study project on the issue of capital punishment using as text the book, DEAD MAN WALKING

• give us feedback on the play: how it worked or didn’t, and suggestions on how to expand the discourse in creative and engaging ways

• on an optional basis we invite the art and music departments to sponsor creative projects on the issue (the CD of Dead Man Walking, recently released by Sony, may serve to spark the imaginations of musicians and future composers).

There are two ways to perform the play:
1) Preferably, by performing a full-stage production or
2) if resources are scant, by performing a staged reading of the play (the entire play, not excerpts).

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Sign Up for the Play

If you are ready to sign up for the Play Project, complete and send us these three participation forms (you’ll need a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader).

• Play Project Registration Form (pdf)
• Play Project Activity Plans (pdf)
• Project Materials Order Form (pdf)
• Licensing Agreement (pdf)

Alternatively, download the complete “Get Involved Packet” in zipped format. In addition to the forms, it includes contact information for current and past Play Project participants and a copy of the letter from Tim Robbins and Sister Helen Prejean.