Event

To Kill A Mockingbird

Continuing it's 27th season, The Un-Common Theatre Company is pleased to present "To Kill A Mockingbird", the first non musical show that it has put on in many years. Dramatized by Christopher Sergel, from the classic book by Harper Lee this show is Directed by Meg Dussault of Sharon, Ma.

Scout and her brother Jem are being raised by their widower father, Atticus, and by a strong-minded housekeeper, Calpurnia, in a quiet southern town in 1935. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface of the life here. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Since this is causing such an upset, Scout wants to know why he's doing it. "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." Things get bitter to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph.
This meaningful work of art is reccomended for ages 12 & up.