Published Sunday, November 01, 2009 in Close-Up
Fifteen actors and a crew of seven from the Montana Repertory Theatre present the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in Newnan Monday.
The performance is at 7 p.m. at the Centre on Lower Fayetteville Road. Tickets are $12 adults, $10 students and senior citizens, and $5 for Coweta school system students and faculty with ID.
The group is from the theater in residence at the School of Fine Arts at The University of Montana and is on its 2009 national tour. The troupe has been providing top-quality theater to audiences across the country since 1968. Past seasons have included works by Tennessee Williams, Wendy Wasserstein, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Horton Foote, Ken Ludwig and William Gibson.
Harper Lee's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," is now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication. It was brought to the screen in an Academy Award-winning adaptation by Horton Foote in 1962 and was later adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel. Though more than 35 years old, this stage adaptation continues to compel and delight viewers worldwide with its warmth, wit and wisdom.