By: Harper Lee & Christopher Sergel
Facts and Major Differences Between Novel and Play:
http://www.wyp.org.uk/downloads/Mockingbirdresourcepack.pdf?divert=1
Basics
Full length play
9 male characters (not including extras)
6 female characters (not including extras)
Setting: Summer 1935
Location: Maycomb County, Alabama
Running time: 2 hrs 15 min
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934882.html?categoryid=1265&cs=1
Running time: 2 hrs 20 min
http://www.edinburghguide.com/aande/theatre/reviews_05/t/to_kill_a_mocking_bird_pitlochry.shtml
"a traditional piece of American gothic"
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune March 3, 2002
http://www.chopintheatre.com/event.php?id=573
"'a love story, pure and simple': love for the South, a father's love for his children and their love for him."
Richard Connema quoting Harper Lee
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sanfran/s172.html
Playwright
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and the former Frances Cunningham Finch. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.
After graduating from high school in Monroeville, Lee enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944–45), and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945–49). While there, she wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor magazine, the Rammer Jammer. Though she did not complete the law degree, she studied for a summer in Oxford, England, before moving to New York in 1950, where she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC.
Lee continued as a reservation clerk until the late 50s, when she devoted herself to writing. She lived a frugal life, traveling between her cold-water-only apartment in New York and her family home in Alabama to care for her father.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee
Christopher Sergel
Christopher Sergel's interests and talents led him on many adventures throughout the world. As captain of the schooner Chance, he spent two years in the South Pacific; as a writer for Sports Afield magazine, he lived in the African bush for a year; as a lieutenant commander during WWII, he taught celestial navigation; as a playwright, his adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio was seen on Broadway. But throughout his life, his greatest adventure and deepest love was his work with Dramatic Publishing. During this time, he wrote adaptations of To Kill a Mockingbird, Cheaper By the Dozen, The Mouse That Roared, Up the Down Staircase, Fame, Black Elk Speaks and many more. His love of theatre and his caring for writers made him a generous and spirited mentor to many playwrights here and around the world. His inspiration and integrity attracted to the company fine writers including C.P. Taylor, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Arthur Miller, Roald Dahl and E.B. White - to name just a few. He once said he hoped to be remembered as E.B. White described Charlotte…
http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/AuthorBio.php?titlelink=9848
Publication
Available online at amazon.com published by Heinemann Plays.
Acting version also available at amazon.com by The Dramatic Publishing Company.
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