(WHNT) — “Stand up Scout … your father’s passing.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s the movie, the book, or the play, when Reverend Sykes tells Scout to stand up when Atticus walks out of the courthouse I always cry. It’s a powerful moment in the where Atticus is just beat the floor after an innocent man, Tom Robinson, is convicted.
Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960. According to Britannica over 60 million copies have been sold and it has been translated into 40 languages.
Bank Street Players is producing the story set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. Harper Lee’s story of racial injustice has resonated with readers and viewers for decades.
This theatrical version was adapted with Harper Lee’s blessing by Christopher Sergel.
The play will be performed by the Bank Street Players at the historical Princess Theatre May 2-4. Much of the play has dialogue lifted right from the book. It is full of the iconic lines from Harper Lee’s writing like “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
You can find “To Kill a Mockingbird” at any bookstore or you can download it at any services that sells downloadable books.
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