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Rafe Spall is wonderful as Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird but the play falls short overall

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IT’S an anti-racism play told to teenagers across the UK when they undertake their GCSEs and to finally see it on stage is a little underwhelming.

Moments of To Kill A Mockingbird leave my hairs standing on end, especially when Scout takes on her racist neighbours with total innocence, but having her brother and Dill help narrate the story takes away from the play overall.

Harper Lee’s tale of childhood innocence sees Scout encounter racism when her lawyer father Atticus (Rafe Spall) defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a trial that he simply will not win.

Something that is not massively far from the current day situations we’ve seen play out in America and closer to home. Spall is wonderful as Atticus.

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