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Stone's Throw Dinner Theatre
Community Theatre for Southwest Missouri... Serving the Arts Since 1928
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Director's Notes
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Stone's Throw Dinner Theatre is proud to bring the classic civil rights courtroom drama from Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning
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book and the Academy Award winning movie to our stage in conjunction with the Theatre's African American Heritage Celebration. Our
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patrons will enjoy the 1930s classic cars on display, visit exhibits on local African Americans featuring inventor George Washington
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Carver (including exhibits from the George Washington Carver National Park), ragtime composer James Scott, poet Langston Hughes,
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and TIme photographer/director Gordon Parks, and listen to musical performances by Kufara (African), Now or Never Gang (bluegrass),
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Joel Williams (ragtime) and other musical styles as well as African American themed presentations prior to the play each day of the
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performance.
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The celebration concludes with the presentation of the play, "To Kill a Mockingbird", featuring a cast of over 50 people which will
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take you back to 1930s Alabama in the midst of the racially segregated town of Maycomb. The predominately white townspeople are
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asked to sit in judgement of African American Tom Robinson, on trial for a heinous crime based upon the testimony of a white Maycomb
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family of dubious reputation, even among their peers. Local attorney Atticus Finch accepts the assignment of defending Tom Robinson
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and his seemingly impossible case. As a consequence, widower Atticus Finch gets more than he could ever foreseeably bargain for --
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immersing his family in Maycomb's prevailing racial bias and prejudices, thereby imperiling his son, Jem, and daughter, Scout, and
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resulting in tragedy. Sift the facts and the evidence from the trial for yourselves, possibly being one of the six guest jurors who actuallyl
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will participate in the trial on our stage.
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In the end, the audience will learn the important life lessons and worthy morals that are embedded throughout the play. Look for
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the symbolism that is incorporated in set design, set construction, placement of actors, and the action that is intended to be in harmony
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with Harper Lee's work and the theme of the African American Heritage Celebration. The play features numerous unexpected twists,
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violence, and racially offensive language, but such was the reality in many parts of the deep South in the 1930s.
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We strongly recommend purchasing your tickets immediately, particularly any group purchases, as ticket demand has already
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exceeded our projections and sellouts are expected possibly for the entire run of the Celebration. Come early to take in the Celebration,
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bring your appetite, and enjoy the show and its life lessons.
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