To Kill A Mockingbird Reviews

Carolyn from Waterbury, Connecticut

DISAPPOINTING

Unmet expectations. I’ve always loved the novel as well as the movie. I found the play off , in that that they tried to introduce humor into a very serious subject- racial discrimination. I felt uncomfortable and distracted. Some guests were laughing. I was not. Acoustics were poor. Found it difficult to hear/ understand the dialogue with the southern accents. Also felt is was too long. Think I’ll stick with book on this one.

from Birmingham, Alabama

DISAPPOINTED

The sound was terrible, cannot hear the actors. Why does it take 3 hours to tell a two hour story? The filler put us to sleep.

Joanie from Richmond, Virginia

PERHAPS A LOVE - HATE RELATIONSHIP....?

This is is one of my favorite books and I've read it probably I have dozen times. I've watched the old movie a dozen times. It was difficult to understand the words that the actors were saying, especially Scout (This wasn't just me but several people said the same thing). I loved Richard Thomas; I grew up watching him in the waltons and found this a totally pleasant surprise. I just don't like this adaptation. The last thing we need in 2024 is to be lectured about racism as though the audience is made up of a bunch of current day Jim Ewells. The story itself is tragic I'm not sure I liked mixing comedy with a story that rips my heart out.... But there were some great lines. Capernium wins the show for sure...or a it Tom? The bright spot is that one can look at that play and at the book and see how far we have come in this world. No our world is not perfect and it cuts both ways. It never will be.. I would prefer if it had stuck closer to the original book.

Kathy from Nashville, Tennessee

VERY DISAPPOINTED

Difficult to hear Humor and slapstick don’t belong in this play Link Deas, Tom Robinson, Calpurnia actors were quite good but if we could have left at intermission we would have.

Richard A Phelps from Tucson, Arizona

UNDERWHELMED

The book is a cherished favorite. The film adaptation with Gregory Peck is a classic. The play I saw last night was simply disappointing. Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch was very good, as were some of the supporting cast including Yaegel Welch (Tom Robinson), Richard Poe (Judge Taylor), and Steven Lee Johnson (Dill Harris). However, Melanie Moore (as Scout and the principle narrator), whose performance was otherwise laudable, has apparently never been to Alabama or the south, and her inconsistent attempts at a southern accent was far more Brooklyn than 'Bama. Most disappointing were the organization of the jumping back and forth in time rather than presenting the story linearly, and the decision to make the racial bigotry message far more heavy-handed than the subtlety used so effectively in both the book and the movie. I went hoping for so much more, but came away quite underwhelmed.

Erin Scharte from Minneapolis, Minnesota

ALL FEELING LOST IN COMEDY, NO WARMTH.

My husband and I adore this classic and we were thrilled to be apart of this experience. We both were curious how the current times would handle this heavy subject. Sadly, with humor and leaving many keys relationships and roles out. The movie was able to translate the literature into lightheartedness and handled the gravity of the subject realisticly. We felt this production made a mockery of it. The children were so important in the telling of the story and they had so much depth. What we saw here, they were used as punchlines. Atticus, has a quiet wisdom and warmth and we felt it was very much lacking. We did love the costumes and the sets were beautiful. There were molments to enjoy, but overall, it was mostly mowed over and the core was ripped out. We left disappointed. Would not recommend if you truly love the book or movie.

Debbie Dyle from St. Louis, Missouri

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD WITH A BAD ACCENT

Omg. The accent was SO BAD that it was impossible to understand many of the lines. I do not know where Scout was from, but it certainly was NOT Alabama.

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