Review: To Kill a Mockingbird Leeds Playhouse

Review: To Kill a Mockingbird Leeds Playhouse

Harper Lee’s seminal novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, which addresses racial injustice in 1930s Alabama, remains as popular today as it was when first published in 1960.

To Kill A Mockingbird Review - Fairy Powered Productions

Leeds Playhouse – until 4 October 2025 Reviewed by Dawn Smallwood 5***** Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird comes to life on stage at the Leeds Playhouse. Lee’s novel, written in 1960, is adapted by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher. The novel is set in the United States’ Deep South, in the 1930s and the Great Depression Era. It explores first hand innocence and issues that resonate today such as racial injustice and inequality trigger…

To Kill a Mockingbird – Leeds Playhouse

Generations of school children have read To Kill a Mockingbird’s tale of racial injustice in 1930s Alabama as past history, but watching citizens in today’s America being arrested without any due process means it has once again become a warning. With his background as the creator of the unashamedly liberal The West Wing, it was obvious Oscar winning writer Aaron Sorkin would bring something new to the theatrical version of Harper Lee’s classic n…