Aaron Sorkin's 2018 Broadway adaptation of the 1960 Harper Lee novel is playing through Sunday at the San Diego Civic Theatre
The first thing to know about the 2018 Broadway play “To Kill a Mockingbird,” now running through Sunday at the San Diego Civic Theatre, is that it’s no carbon copy of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel.
Playwright Aaron Sorkin took Lee’s poetic coming-of-age story about Atticus’ two children, Jem and Scout, and turned it upside down into a searing and powerful drama about racism, White privilege and Atticus’ downfall from meek and forgiving idealist into disillusioned and flawed realist and activist. In this version of the story, the novel’s two Black characters, Tom and the Finch family’s housekeeper Calpurnia, have a much-bigger presence and a more contemporary voice.Yaegel T.
Yaegel T. Welch gives a shattering performance as Tom, who fights for both his life and his dignity in court. Jacqueline Williams is wise and strong as Calpurnia, who confronts Atticus on his privilege and comments ruefully on the glacial pace of progress. Scenic designer Miriam Buether’s weathered courtroom and Finch front porch scenery hint at the long decline of the South and a stylized “fire curtain” hides the stage before each act. In the ‘30s, asbestos-lined stage curtains were a common way to protect the audience from backstage conflagrations.
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