Early in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, young Scout Finch starts telling us about the courtroom in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. She does so with the reverence of a child who will grow up to be a lawyer.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a work people tend to know, and have seen. If you saw a staged version around Chicago, you almost certainly saw an adaptation by Christopher Sergel, a venerable text loyal to Lee’s vision. Sergel’s adaptation,Sorkin’s version is something else entirely.
Yaegel T. Welch , Stephen Elrod, Jacqueline Williams and Richard Thomas in the touring production of"To Kill a Mockingbird." Lee, of course, was tied both to her time and memory. Sorkin’s restless writing changes her novel, of that there is no question, and inarguably undermines perhaps what mattered most to Lee, Atticus’ courageous heroism. But in so doing, he makes this work vital in terms of contemporary, left-of-center debate. Racism is not the only thing on trial in the courtroom. So is old-school liberalism with its oft-paternalistic insistence on bringing people along.
Justin Mark , Richard Thomas , Melanie Moore and Steven Lee Johnson in the touring production of"To Kill a Mockingbird."
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