History Theatre / ToKillAMockingbird

* RefugeInAudacity: To cover for Jem losing his pants, Dem says that they were playing strip poker. "They", of course, meaning "just the boys".

'''To Kill a Mockingbird''' is the 2018 stage adaptation of [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird the novel]] by Creator/HarperLee, adapted by Creator/AaronSorkin. The Broadway run was directed by Bartlett Sher with Creator/ScottRudin producing. The original cast included Creator/JeffDaniels as Atticus Finch and Creator/CeliaKeenanBolger as Scout Finch. Creator/EdHarris later took over the role of Atticus. Creator/GregKinnear was supposed to play Atticus after Harris’s run, but then Broadway shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When the play returned in 2021 Daniels was again cast in the role of Atticus.

* AbortedArc: The Mrs. Dubose plotline goes much further than it did in the movie, but it doesn't reach the ending that the book did, and instead ends before Jem's final meeting with Dubose (the one where it's revealed that [[spoiler:she was dying and had a morphine addiction]]). In the touring version, [[spoiler: the resolution is moved to an off-handed mention from Atticus.]]
* ActorAllusion: Atticus saying that “our darkest days are always followed by our finest hours” here is given an extra layer of self-referential subtext here, given that Sorkin had already used the line in ''Series/TheNewsroom'', which also featured Jeff Daniels as lead.

* BatmanGambit: Atticus heavily implies that Bob was indeed the one who assaulted Mayella, knowing that Bob will kick up a scene and get himself thrown out of court, enabling Mayella to answer Atticus’ questions more honestly. However, Mayella remains loyal to her father (although she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does have visible regret after taking her seat again]]).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Bob Ewell shows up drunk in front of Atticus’ house and taunts Atticus with Tom’s “guilty” verdict, then threatens his family – specifically Scout, who he says must learn to use her mouth for “something other than yapping” – Atticus finally snaps and pins Ewell’s wrists behind his back. Atticus then threatens to break both of Ewell’s arms so he can’t touch Mayella again before he snaps out of it. His rage also breaks through much earlier when he questions Mayella rather intensely.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Tom Robinson dies after (supposedly) trying to escape from the police on foot and Atticus is thrown off his seat in the Alabama council after pushing an equal rights bill forward, but his relationship with Calpurnia and his children is strengthened and he has vowed to take a more active role in the fight for civil rights going forwards.]]

* DecompositeCharacter: The lesson to never shoot a mockingbird isn’t one thought up by Atticus — rather, it was something passed down by his unseen father, as revealed in his closing speech.

* RefugeInAudacity: To cover for Jem losing his pants, Dem says that they were playing strip poker. “They”, of course, meaning “just the boys”.

--> '''Robinson:''' You gonna finish that sentence?!

* ThrowingOutTheScript: {{Lampshaded}} by Scout in a line of dialogue.
--> Atticus had spent all night working on that speech, tweaking it just about to perfection. You could see in his eyes the exact moment he decided to throw it all out.
* WorldOfSnark: Practically a requirement for a Sorkin production, with Scout and (surprisingly) Atticus having some standout zingers.

* AbortedArc: The Mrs. Dubose plotline goes much further than it did in the movie, but it doesn't reach the ending that the book did, and instead ends before Jem's final meeting with Dubose (the one where it's revealed that [[spoiler:she was dying and had a morphine addiction]]). In the touring version, [[spoiler: the resolution is moved to an off-handed mention from Atacus.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Bob Ewell shows up drunk in front of Atticus’ house and taunts Atticus with Tom’s “guilty” verdict, then threatens his family – specifically Scout, who he says must learn to use her mouth for “something other than yapping” – Atticus finally snaps and pins Ewell’s wrists behind his back. Atticus then threatens to break both of Ewell’s arms so he can’t touch Mayella again before he snaps out of it.
** His rage also breaks through much earlier when he questions Mayella rather intensely.

* CastingGag: Mary Badham, who played Scout in the 1962 film, will play her nemesis Mrs. Dubose in the touring production.
* CharacterDevelopment: Sorkin's stated goal when adapting the book was to create a story where Atticus, rather than being a perfect, contained hero from the start, ''becomes'' heroic as a result of the events.
** Specifically, Atticus starts out more passive towards the racism in Maycomb, and takes Tom Robinson's case not for justice, but because it was assigned to him. As the case goes on, Atticus becomes more focused on racial justice (especially after being confronted by Calpurnia), and by the play's end he's much more active in civil rights, to the point that he even tried to get an equal rights bill passed.

* InMediasRes: As seen in AnachronicOrder above, the opening starts at the trial before flashing back to the beginning of the original story.
* LetsGetDangerous: As implied under BewareTheNiceOnes, Atticus removes his jacket and rather harshly cross-examines Mayella after his attempt to treat her kindly fail.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Both Ewells, naturally. [[MeaningfulEcho Mayrlla even directly and unknowingly quotes some of her father’s earlier racist rant word for word]], and Bob [[ImpliedDeathThreat not so subtly threatens to set the KKK on the Finches.]]

* BatmanGambit: Atticus harshly questions Mayella, knowing that her father will kick up a scene and get himself thrown out of court, enabling Mayella to answer Atticus’ questions more honestly. This backfires and Mayella remains loyal to her father (although she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does have visible regret after taking her seat again]]).

* RefugeInAudacity: To cover for Atticus’ son losing his pants, one of the kids says that they were playing strip poker, just the boys of course.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Atticus muses to himself if the jury could possibly find Robinson guilty, then trails off…

* AbortedArc: The Mrs. Dubose plotline goes much further than it did in the movie, but it doesn't reach the ending that the book did, and instead ends before Jem's final meeting with Dubose (the one where it's revealed that [[spoiler:she was dying and had a morphine addiction]]).

--> Atticus had spent all night working on that speech, tweaking it just about to perfection. You could see in his eyes the exact moment he decided to throw it all out.

'''To Kill a Mockingbird''' is the 2018 stage adaptation of [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird the novel by]] Creator/HarperLee, adapted by Creator/AaronSorkin. The Broadway run was directed by Bartlett Sher with Creator/ScottRudin producing. The original cast included Creator/JeffDaniels as Atticus Finch and Creator/CeliaKeenanBolger as Scout Finch. Creator/EdHarris later took over the role of Atticus. Creator/GregKinnear was supposed to play Atticus after Harris’s run, but then Broadway shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When the play returned in 2021 Daniels was again cast in the role of Atticus.

* AdaptationDeviation: As a CompositeCharacter, Link Deas has much of Dolphus Raymond's backstory added to his character, with one key difference. While he still has children with a black woman, his past of his fiancee committing suicide on their wedding day is omitted. Instead, the tragic part of his past is that one of his children fell ill, and died after he was refused aid due to his status as a biracial child.

!!Tropes Associated With This Work Include:

'''To Kill a Mockingbird''' is the 2018 stage adaptation of [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird the novel by]] Creator/HarperLee, adapted by Creator/AaronSorkin. The Broadway run was directed by Bartlett Sher with Creator/ScottRudin producing. The original cast included Creator/JeffDaniels as Atticus Finch and Creator/CeliaKeenanBolger as Scout Finch. Creator/EdHarris later took over the role of Atticus. Creator/GregKinnear was supposed to play Atticus after Harris’s run, but then Broadway shut down due to the ongoing pandemic, and it remains to be seen when the show will return and with whom in the cast.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Dolphus Raymond, the town drunk, is portrayed as deaf in this version, communicating through a mixture of speech and ASL, with the kids translating.

'''To Kill a Mockingbird''' is the 2018 stage adaptation of [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird the novel by]] Creator/HarperLee, adapted by Creator/AaronSorkin. The Broadway run was directed by Bartlett Sher with Creator/ScottRudin producing and starred Creator/JeffDaniels (and later Creator/EdHarris) as Atticus Finch and Creator/CeliaKeenanBolger as Scout Finch.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Bob Ewell shows up drunk in front of Atticus’ house and taunts Atticus with Tom’s “guilty” verdict, then threatens his family – specifically Scout, who he says must learn to use her mouth for “something other than yapping” – Atticus finally snaps and pins Ewell’s wrists behind his back. Atticus then threatens to break both of Ewell’s arms so he can’t touch his daughter again before he snaps out of it.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Dolphus Raymond, the town drunk, is portrayed as deaf in this version, communicating through a mixture of speech and ASL.

—-> Atticus had spent all night working on that speech, tweaking it just about to perfection. You could see in his eyes the exact moment he decided to throw it all out.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Bob Ewell shows up drunk in front of Atticus’ house and taunts Atticus with Tom’s “guilty” verdict, as well as with the fact that [[TemptingFate Atticus is a nonviolent man]], THEN spits in his face before taking a swing at him, Atticus finally snaps and pins Ewell’s wrists behind his back. Atticus then threatens to break both of Ewell’s arms so he can’t touch his daughter again before he snaps out of it.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Dolphus Raymond, the town drunk, is portrayed as deaf in this version, communicating through a mixture of speech and ASL.

* CharacterDevelopment: Sorkin's stated goal when adapting the book was to create a story where Atticus, rather than being a perfect, contained hero from the start, ''becomes'' heroic as a result of the events.

* CharacterDevelopment: Sorkin's stated goal when adapting the book was to create a story where Atticus, rather than being a perfect, contained hero from the start, ''becomes'' heroic as a result of the events.
* DawsonCasting: All of the children are played by adult actors.
* DevelopmentHell / TroubledProduction:
** The play was announced in 2016 but didn't open on Broadway until two years later, and the difficult adaptation progress at one point led to a lawsuit from the estate of Harper Lee due to apparent changes to the novel that was eventually settled.
** Producer Scott Rudin faced controversy after he sued community theatres who were performing a previous adaptation of ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' written by Christopher Sergel for copyright interference. After a backlash, Rudin withdrew his suits and allowed the companies to use Aaron Sorkin's script free of charge.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Bob Ewell shows up drunk in front of Atticus’ house and taunts him with Tom’s “guilty” verdict, as well as with the fact that [[TemptingFate Atticus is a nonviolent man]], THEN takes a swing at him, Atticus finally snaps and pins Bob’s arms behind his back. He then threatens to break the both of them so he can’t touch his daughter again before he snaps out of it.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Bob Ewell shows up drunk in front of Atticus’ house and taunts him with Tom’s “guilty” verdict, as well as with the fact that [[TemptingFate Atticus is a nonviolent man]], THEN takes a swing at him, Atticus finally snaps and pins Bob’s arms behind his back, threatening to break the both of them so he can’t touch his daughter again.

'''To Kill a Mockingbird''' is the 2018 stage adaptation of [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird the novel by]] Creator/HarperLee, adapted by Creator/AaronSorkin. The Broadway run was directed by Bartlett Sher with Creator/ScottRudin producing and starred Creator/JeffDaniels as Atticus Finch and Creator/CeliaKeenanBolger as Scout Finch.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Bob Ewell shows up drunk in front of Atticus’ house and taunts him with Tom’s “guilty” verdict, as well as with the fact that [[TemptingFate Atticus is a nonviolent man]], THEN takes a swing at him, Atticus finally snaps and pins his arms behind his back, threatening to break the both of them so he can’t touch his daughters again.

'''To Kill a Mockingbird''' is the 2018 stage adaptation of [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird the novel by]] Creator/Harper Lee, adapted by Creator/AaronSorkin. The Broadway run was directed by Bartlett Sher with Creator/ScottRudin producing and starred Creator/JeffDaniels as Atticus Finch and Creator/CeliaKeenanBolger as Scout Finch.

* DevelopmentHell / TroubledProduction: The play was announced in 2016 but didn't open on Broadway until two years later, and the difficult adaptation progress at one point led to a lawsuit from the estate of Harper Lee due to apparent changes to the novel that was eventually settled.