The story behind the gripping stage production on its way to Ireland – The Irish Times

“I’ve refused scores of requests from some mightily talented people to turn M’bird into everything from a Broadway play to an opera,” Harper Lee wrote to Gregory Peck in the late 1980s. “M’bird” was To Kill a Mockingbird, and Peck’s Academy Award-winning performance as the principled lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 adaptation of Lee’s … Read more