2002-2003 SEASON

THE CLASSIC AMERICAN COURTROOM DRAMA

By Christopher Sergel. Adapted from the novel by Harper Lee

Director: Janet Wright.
Starring Kevin McNulty with Kwesi Ameyaw, Shirley Broderick, Cody Brown, Mark Burgess, John Carroll, Candus Churchill, Kim Davis, Susinn McFarlen, Jennifer Mawhinney, Andrew McNee, Wendy Noel, Russell Roberts, Nirit Rozenberg, Alvin Sanders, Lee Taylor, Dylan Williams.
Designers: Ted Roberts, Del Surjik, Karen Matthews and John McCulloch

September 26 - November 3

THE TIMELESS STORY OF HEROISM OVER PREJUDICE.
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." -Atticus

The year is 1932. Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch has agreed to defend a young black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman. By watching her father’s struggle, young tomboy Scout Finch learns to consider the world from another’s perspective. Through the eyes of young Scout and her brother Jem, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the ‘30s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice.

To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and the following year Harper Lee became the first woman in two decades to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today, more than 15 million copies of To Kill a Mockingbird have been sold. This was Lee’s first, and only, published book.

"The kids are great. Nirit Rozenberg shows genuine spunk as Scout Finch...solid work as well from the adult side...Kevin McNulty's gentle heroic portrayal of Atticus Finch." - The Vancouver Sun

"Tender and searing...splendid." ~New York Herald Tribune

"Tactile brilliance...astonishing." ~Time Magazine