Last night I took my oldest daughter to the Gielgud Theatre to see the new production of To Kill a Mockingbird. This adaptation of the Harper Lee novel by Aaron Sorkin was first put on in 2018 on Broadway and has been in London since last March.
The story is told through the eyes of the Finch children and their friend Dill, with re-enactment of events by the rest of the cast, split between the courtroom and the events taking place in the town. I think I did read the book in school, though I re-read it as an adult something like 5-10 years ago, and I remembered reasonably well what the plot was. The adaptation worked really well, I thought, telling the story, showing the horror of small town America, with the depressing message that much has not changed, with it still being dangerous to be black in the US. The acting was pretty decent overall, and they all did creditable sourthern US accents, though the judge occasionally seemed to be speaking in an Irish accent. Was he suppsed to be a recent immigrant? Hmm.
Of course, no pictures were allowed during the play, but here is one of me and my daughter as we waited in our seats for it to start
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