Doh, I forgot to post some of the photos from the trip that my mom and I took to Monroeville, Alabama to see the Mockingbird Players' production of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Monroeville, of course, is the hometown of Harper Lee -- though they know her as Nelle Lee -- and is the inspiration for the town of Maycomb in the book. Lee's father Amasa Lee was a lawyer who argued cases in the courthouse at the center of town, and Lee would go and watch her father from the balcony. I trust you're gettting the gist here -- much of the book is based on Lee's own experiences growing up in Monroeville.
What's more, the 1965 movie version of TKAM features a courthouse set that's almost an exact reproduction of the Monroeville courthouse. So it was certainly pretty cool to see folks of Maycomb/Monroeville acting out a story that was set in their town and featured characters inspired by some of their neighbors and friends and the like. And the race issues addressed in the book are still much in play in Monroeville. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First, the first act of this two-act play was set outside the courthouse, on a set of mini-houses meant to represent those of the Finches, the Radley's, and Miss Stephanie and Miss Maudie:
Then the people showed up. Maybe 250 of them?
Act Two was set in the actual courthouse. The jury was plucked from the audience (all men, of course, for the sake of being true to the time):
And "Tom Robinson" (a local funeral home employee) and "Mayella Ewell" (a sophomore at Monroe Academy) testified here:
Then we have a full view of the courthouse, taken at night, after the performance:
You notice that there are no photographs of the actual play itself. The sound engineer (who played "Jem" in years past) announced that to take photographs or video would "void our copyright." I'll admit, this is a nuance of copyright law that I had not run into before now. I'm going to look into it. Anyway, there are other sites to see in Monroeville. Namely, where Nelle Harper Lee's house once stood -- now the site of Mel's Dairy Dream:
And also Truman Capote's relatives' house. He lived just next door to Nelle when he stayed in Monroeville, but all that's left of his family's home is the stone wall around the perimeter:
All in all, a fantastic trip. If you ever get a chance to do it, I highly recommend it. But you have to be quick on the draw -- tickets tend to sell out the first day they go on sale.
What's more, the 1965 movie version of TKAM features a courthouse set that's almost an exact reproduction of the Monroeville courthouse. So it was certainly pretty cool to see folks of Maycomb/Monroeville acting out a story that was set in their town and featured characters inspired by some of their neighbors and friends and the like. And the race issues addressed in the book are still much in play in Monroeville. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First, the first act of this two-act play was set outside the courthouse, on a set of mini-houses meant to represent those of the Finches, the Radley's, and Miss Stephanie and Miss Maudie:
Then the people showed up. Maybe 250 of them?
Act Two was set in the actual courthouse. The jury was plucked from the audience (all men, of course, for the sake of being true to the time):
And "Tom Robinson" (a local funeral home employee) and "Mayella Ewell" (a sophomore at Monroe Academy) testified here:
Then we have a full view of the courthouse, taken at night, after the performance:
You notice that there are no photographs of the actual play itself. The sound engineer (who played "Jem" in years past) announced that to take photographs or video would "void our copyright." I'll admit, this is a nuance of copyright law that I had not run into before now. I'm going to look into it. Anyway, there are other sites to see in Monroeville. Namely, where Nelle Harper Lee's house once stood -- now the site of Mel's Dairy Dream:
And also Truman Capote's relatives' house. He lived just next door to Nelle when he stayed in Monroeville, but all that's left of his family's home is the stone wall around the perimeter:
All in all, a fantastic trip. If you ever get a chance to do it, I highly recommend it. But you have to be quick on the draw -- tickets tend to sell out the first day they go on sale.
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