by Christopher Sergel
Based on the novel by Harper Lee

Performed
Jul 23-26, 29-31, Aug 1-2, 2008
at
The Boal Barn Playhouse

Production Staff

Director	Susanna Ritti
Lighting Designer	Susan L. Polay
Sound Designer	Michael Blake
Costume Designer	Edna Rentschler
Stage Manager	Diana Ingersoll-Cope
Assistant Stage Manager	Kathleen Murphy
Apprentice Coordinator	Kathi Lunardi

About the Show

What you are about to see is a dramatized version of the Harper Lee novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The novel was published in 1960 with a first edition of a mere five thousand copies. In 1961 the novel rocketed to the top of the bestseller list and won the Pulitzer Prize. Since then, sales of the novel numbered in the tens of millions, and “To Kill a Mockingbird” has become one of the most read and most influential books in America-rated by one survey as second only to the Bible.

It has been suggested that the core of the novel’s story is both a depiction of a way of life and of a passage from innocence into experience and then back toward innocence. “Lee captured something that everyone thirsts for: to reawaken what might have been, and might somehow still be.”

In keeping with the novel, the play is set in Maycomb, Alabama in 1935. The script maintains the primary themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. As well, the script also addresses the novel’s issues of class tensions, courage and compassion, gender roles in the American Deep South, and – last, but not least – it celebrates and retains the warmth and humor for which the novel is renowned.

Susanna Ritti

The Cast

Jean Louis Finch (Scout)	Sarah Seybert
Jeremy Finch (Jem)	Nick Christie
Atticus Finch	Kevin Murphy
Calpurnia	Alicia Casey
Maudie Atkinson	Rhiannon McClintock
Stephanie Crawford	Stephanie J. Gates
Mrs. DuBose	Bonny Farmer
Arthur Radley (Boo)	Mark Farmer
Charles Baker Harris (Dill)	Benjamin Schiffer
Sheriff Heck Tate	Eric J. Ziegler
Judge Taylor	David Price
Reverend Sykes	Amir Abdullah
Mayella Ewell	Amy Hobbs
Bob Ewell	George Baumer
Walter Cunningham	Joe Krabill
Mr. Gilmer	Christopher M. Brannen
Tom Robinson	Anthony Russell
Parishioners	Tara Blasingame
	Gail Gwynn

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