People’s World – Hey, Boo: To stage a Mockingbird

I went to see Christopher Sergel’s theatrical adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” with trepidations. After all, I’d read Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel and seen, many times, Robert Mulligan’s 1962 extremely faithful film version which won three Oscars, including for Horton Foote’s “Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.” And who can ever forget Gregory Peck’s sensitive, dignified Academy Award winning depiction of Atticus Finch, the small town attorney who defends an innocent Black man in the 1930s segregated South? More recently I saw and reviewed Mary Murphy’s 2010 documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE