![]() ![]() Where: Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street.ĭetails: $40 and up See More Collapse “They’re still our friends and neighbors,” he exclaims of the raving bigots who want to see the defendant, Tom Robinson (Yaegel T. As written by Sorkin, and played by Richard Thomas, this Atticus is naïve, glib, perhaps even delusional in his blinkered optimism. (It also provides a strong argument for the Hobby’s Broadway series to sprinkle in some more non-musical productions). This Atticus was, frankly, kind of boring in his one-note perfection.Īaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation, which premiered on Broadway in 2018 and stops for a brief touring run at Houston’s Hobby Center this week that ends Sunday, provides a bracing departure from the movie’s porcelain god figure. ![]() ![]() The Atticus Finch best known in the popular imagination was played by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” This Atticus was a white savior in smalltown ‘30s Alabama, a lawyer of almost impossible nobility defending an innocent Black man against trumped-up charges of raping a young white woman, the kind of accusation used to justify lynchings on a regular basis in the Jim Crow South. Welch (“Tom Robinson”) and The Company of To Kill a Mockingbird at Hobby Center Julieta Cervantes/Photo: Julieta Cervantes Richard Thomas (“Atticus Finch”), Yaegel T. ![]()
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