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Originally published on May 10, 2021 1:35 pm For more than a decade, ​high school students around the country have honored the life and work of the late playwright August Wilson with an annual monologue competition, delivering scenes from “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson.” The first round is held regionally and in a typical year winners advance to a national final in New York City. Louisiana hasn’t participated in the past, but L.B. Landry High School in Algiers hopes to change that. This year, the school hosted its own version of the event called The August Experience. The pur...

L.B. Landry High School in Algiers. May 1, 2021. For more than a decade, ​high school students around the country have honored the life and work of the late playwright August Wilson with an annual monologue competition, delivering scenes from “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson.” The first round of competition is held regionally and in a typical year winners advance to a national final in New York City. Louisiana hasn’t held a local competition in the past, but that changed Saturday when L.B. Landry High School in Algiers hosted the state’s inaugural event. Twenty-one students from ...