The Big Read will culminate with a theatrical performance of the famouse courtroom scene from To Kill a Mockingbird at the Adams County Courthouse. The well-known story of Jem and Scout Finch, two children growing up in the deep South during the Great Depression in the 1930s, will be performed 5:30pm and 6:30pm on Thursday, October 15.It was originally slated to be performed once at 6:00pm, but we had such an overwhelming response from the community, that we had to offer two showings. Big Read participants are invited to sit in the jury box and court chambers and watch as the Quincy University Theater and Political Science departments bring the pivotal courtroom scene to life.
Here's a summary of the play itself:
Wide-eyed Scout is a young girl fascinated with the people in her quiet southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, where there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface of life. Playwright Christopher Sergel dramatizes Harper Lee’s beautifully written story, evoking the solitude and richness that characterize Maycomb’s community of eccentrics, loving families and Scout’s mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. The story of To Kill a Mockingbird is simple, yet it speaks deeply and eloquently of human nature and of human values. The action is set in the 1930's in a sleepy Southern town, where Atticus Finch, an attorney and the widowed father of two young children, stands against his fellow townspeople by defending a young black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Through every step and with every word, Atticus instills in his children the traditional moral values of respect for others, honesty, courage, integrity, and above all, responsibility for one's actions.
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