To Kill a Mockingbird

Amelia Cropley Much to my excitement, alongside many other Harper Lee fans, Nottingham is the current proud host to the astonishing stage adaptation To Kill A Mockingbird that is touring its way through the UK. And what is not unlike the book, the night was filled with a harsh...

Nelle Harper Lee, author of the widely acclaimed To Kill A Mockingbird, and its controversial sequel, Go Set A Watchman, has died at the age of 89. Her passing was initially confirmed by Mike Kennedy, the Mayor of her hometown in Alabama, which became the inspiration for Mockingbird’s setting, the fictional Maycomb....

Amid recent controversy concerning the discovery of Harper Lee’s long lost manuscript, I leapt at the opportunity to review the novelist’s first, and only published work, on the Theatre Royal stage. Director Timothy Sheader’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is everything the avid reader can hope for as it brings...