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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, dramatized by Christopher Sergel

Produced by Alison Mahoney
Directed by Ellen Abram

June 1-3, 2012
McCormick Auditorium,
Norris University Center (click HERE for directions)
1999 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208

It is the summer of 1935 in Maycomb, Alabama, and Scout Finch’s days are full of Miss Maudie’s Lane cakes, Calpurnia’s scoldings, and elaborate schemes with Jem and Dill to make Boo Radley, the neighborhood recluse not seen for fifteen years, come out. But Maycomb and the Finch family are about to be shaken to their core: Tom Robinson, a black man, has been accused of raping a white woman, and Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, has been appointed to defend him in the upcoming trial. As tensions of race and class erupt into violence, Scout is forced to confront the prejudices that shape her world and the realization that what is right is not always popular or easy. Adapted from Harper Lee’s 1961 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic story of compassion and conscience in the face of American injustice.

"You never know someone until you step inside their skin and walk around a little." ~ To Kill a Mockingbird