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Oscar Pearce (Bob Ewell) with the To Kill A Mockingbird cast.
Photo: Johan Persson
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD RETURNS
TO WEST END
Harper Lee’s seminal, Pulitzer Prize
winning novel about racial injustice and
childhood innocence, has been adapted
for the stage by Academy Award-winning
Aaron Sorkin and directed by Tony
Award-winning Bartlett Sher. This
production makes a triumphant return to
the London stage this summer, following
sensational seasons on Broadway, in the
West End and on a critically acclaimed,
sell-out UK and Ireland tour.
Acclaimed stage and screen actor
Richard Coyle returns to the production
as Atticus Finch, reprising the role he
played to great critical acclaim in the
2022 West End Production.
Successful lawyer, Atticus Finch,
encourages kindness and empathy in his
children, but is pushed to the limits of
these qualities himself when he resolves
to uncover the truth in a town that seems
determined to hide it.
Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a
Mockingbird was inspired by novelist
Harper Lee’s own childhood and has
sold more than 45 million copies
worldwide. It won the Pulitzer Prize for
Literature and was long at the top of the
banned book lists.
Aaron Sorkin has had many years of
great success on stage and screen. He is
perhaps best known as the creator and
screenwriter of hit TV series The West
Wing, and as the screenwriter for The
Social Network, for which he received an
Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA
and Writer’s Guild Award.
Bartlett Sher spent over ten years as
Director of New York’s Lincoln Center
Theater and has also headed acclaimed
productions such as My Fair Lady, The
King and I and South Pacific.
The 2026 West End season of To Kill
a Mockingbird, presented by Jonathan
Church Theatre Productions in
association with Karl Sydow and Tulchin
Bartner, was originally produced on
Broadway.
www.mockingbirdplay.com
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