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114 years imprisoned for a crime they didn’t commit: Play puts you in the shoes of Angola 3

Starting Friday, Oct. 20, a theatrical play called the Angola 3 written by Parnell Herbert and directed by Saran Bynum, will premiere at the historic Carver Theater.

Nigell Moses / WWL Louisiana

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Published: 4:34 PM CDT October 20, 2023
Updated: 4:34 PM CDT October 20, 2023

Imagine being confined in a 6x9 prison cell every day for decades, closed off from the world for a crime you didn’t commit. That is the lived experiences of men known as the Angola 3. Robert H. King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox served a combined 114 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s oldest and largest maximum security prison.

Starting Friday, Oct. 20, a theatrical play called the Angola 3 written by Parnell Herbert and directed by Saran Bynum, will premiere at the historic Carver Theater, inspired by the lives of King, Wallace and Woodfox. 

“Everyone has heard of Nelson Mandela and Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter and people right here in New Orleans didn’t know about these men who did more time in solitary than either of them,” said Parnell Herbert, playwright and childhood friend of Woodfox

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