Adapted for the stage by Oscar‑winner Aaron Sorkin, the smash‑hit Broadway and West End manufacturing of Harper Lee‘s To Kill a Mockingbird will come to Milton Keynes Theatre from Tue 19 – Sat 23 May.
Aaron Sorkin‘s riveting stage adaptation of Harper Lee‘s To Kill a Mockingbird, the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence that grew to become a Broadway and West End sensation with sell-out seasons on either side of the Atlantic, embarks on its first ever UK & Ireland tour and can be visiting Milton Keynes theatre from Tue 19 – Sat 23 May. Successful lawyer, Atticus Finch, encourages kindness and empathy in his youngsters, however is pushed to the boundaries of those qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the reality in a city that appears decided to conceal it.
Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird was impressed by novelist Harper Lee‘s personal childhood and has offered greater than 45 million copies worldwide. It gained the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was lengthy on the prime of the banned e-book lists.
The function of Atticus Finch can be performed by Patrick O’Kane in the performances at Milton Keynes Theatre. Anna Munden as Scout Finch, Gabriel Scott as Jem Finch, Dylan Malyn as Dill Harris, Andrea Davy as Calpurnia, Stephen Boxer as Judge Taylor, Aaron Shosanya as Tom Robinson, Oscar Pearce as Bob Ewell, Evie Hargreaves as Mayella Ewell, Richard Dempsey as Horace Gilmer, Sarah Finigan as Mrs. Dubose, Phillipa Flynn as Miss Stephanie / Dill’s Mother, Harry Attwell as Mr. Cunningham / Boo (Arthur) Radley, Colin R Campbell as Sheriff Heck Tate and Simon Hepworth as Link Deas, with Paul Albertson, James Mitchell, Jonathan Rubin, Cheryl Burniston, Charlotte Luxford, OYIN ORIJA, TIWAI MUZA, Tom Brace-Jenkins, and John J. O’Hagan.
Oscar profitable author Aaron Sorkin‘s stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird is paired with Bartlett Sher‘s visionary path. Aaron Sorkin has had a few years of nice success on stage and display screen. He is probably greatest often called the creator and screenwriter of hit TV sequence The West Wing, and because the screenwriter for The Social Network, for which he acquired an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Writer’s Guild Award. He can be the writer-creator of The Newsroom and the writer of the Academy Award-winning movie A Few Good Men.
Bartlett Sher spent over ten years as Director of New York’s Lincoln Center Theater and has additionally headed acclaimed productions resembling My Fair Lady, The King and I and South Pacific. The inventive group for To Kill a Mockingbird is accomplished by Louisa Muller (Associate Director), Miriam Buether(Set Designer), Ed Pierce (Design Supervisor), Ann Roth (Costume Designer), Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer), Scott Lehrer (Sound Designer), Adam Guettel (Original Score), Kimberley Grigsby (Musical Supervisor), Serena Hill CDG (Casting Director), Campbell Young Associates (Hair and Wigs Designer), Laurence Belcher (Resident Director), and Tavia Jefferson (Cultural Coordinator).
