Dead Man Walking (play) work. The University of Scranton was one of the original Jesuit Universities to perform the play in their 2004-2005 season. Sister Helen Prejean, who had become an internationally known human rights activist as a result of writing "Dead Man Walking", first conceived the idea of a stage version of her work in 1998 after reading a "New Yorker" magazine article that said Arthur Miller's play, "Death of a Salesman", had been performed a million times, and was performed every day somewhere in the world. Sister Helen realized that if "Dead Man Walking" could be made into a play its impact
It's Only the End of the World (play) pulled it off my shelf and suddenly understood and appreciated this weird and verbose writing style." Dolan described the extensive work required to adapt the stage play for film: Dolan's film won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and other honours. It's Only the End of the World (play) It's Only the End of the World () is a 1990 French play by Jean-Luc Lagarce. It is about a character named Louis who returns to his family to announce his terminal illness. Lagarce wrote the play in 1990, when he was considering his own death. In 2008,