“TO Kill A Mockingbird” is one of the best-loved stories in the world. Originally a novel written by Harper Lee and published in 1960, it was the vehicle for a perennially popular film starring Gregory Peck as the morally inspiring lawyer Atticus Finch. It’s a film I can’t get enough of. 

Now the dramatic version is being staged by Liz Bradley for Free Rain Theatre.

“CityNews” has heard that tickets are scarce as hen’s teeth, as it’s playing in the tiny confines of the Courtyard Studio at the Canberra Theatre Centre, so you better be quick.

Yesterday, several members of the cast gathered at the ACT Magistrates Court Building to get a feel for the court room atmosphere. This is where the stage play will gather strength, as the film took the characters out and about on location, dissipating some of the tight drama.

Very simply, the drama is seen through the eyes of a little girl, “Scout,” (played by Maddison Smith Catlin)  who, with her brother Jem (played by Martin Hoggart) is drawn into moral questions when their lawyer father Atticus (Colin Boldra) takes on the defence of a wrongly accused black man.

This is a play that takes on the big issues, but it does so in an accessible form.

“To Kill A Mockingbird” at the Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre, October 19-20, & November 1-3 at 8pm, October 28 at 5pm and October 27 & November 3-4 at 2pm.

Bookings to 6275 2700 or www.canberraticketing.com.au