To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird comes to the stage in the capable hands of Theatre Baton Rouge. Told through the eyes of ten-year-old Scout Finch, this searing tale of justice, hypocrisy, and good neighbors is a deeply moving story that continues to resonate today. Scout and her brother, Jem, are being raised by their widowed father, Atticus, and by the family's strong-minded housekeeper, Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively revealed people of her small town, but, from the start, there’s thunder just beneath the calm surface of life in this small Southern town. Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel—a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus’s children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. September 22—October 8. Performances are at 7:30 pm Thursdays—Saturdays, with 2 pm matinees on Sundays, September 25 and October 1. $25 adults, $20 students. theatrebr.org.