Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Christopher Sergel

The play is directed by Tracy Manning, designed by Kevin Gawley, and with original music by Conner Regan. To Kill A Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and a screen adaptation starring the late Gregory Peck won three Academy Awards. The theatre is a powerful medium to thoughtfully engage societal concerns.” “As students prepare their adaptation of Harper Lee’s book, it is clear that the themes written about six decades ago are still challenging today.

“In a world filled with racial tension, crimes against women, issues of class, bravery, justice, and innocence, Taylor University’s Theatre Department has engaged in a play touching on important topics,” says Greg Dyson, Vice President for Intercultural Leadership and Church Relations at Taylor. But when Atticus decides to defend Tom Robinson, a black man wrongfully accused of rape, Finch's world shifts forever. Despite a certain unawareness of it, Scout’s surroundings are rife with social and racial tension. In the heat of the Depression and Jim Crow laws, Maycomb is struggling. Together they live in the small town of Maycomb with their cook, Calpurnia. Known as “Scout” as a child, Finch is the daughter of lawyer Atticus Finch, and younger sister of Jem. To Kill A Mockingbird opens in the summer of 1935 in rural Maycomb, Alabama, as remembered by now mid-30s Jean Louise Finch.

The Taylor University Theatre program will present Christopher Sergel’s dramatization of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Christopher Sergel