Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird - A Play by Christopher Sergel Directed by Belle Rollins

CITY PARK PLAYERS PRESENTS – A CPP Readers Theatre Presentation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird - A Play by Christopher Sergel Directed by Belle Rollins  A Rapides Public Library “The Big Read” Featured Event

Sunday, November 1, at 2:00 pm
Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center • Tickets: $5
and
Saturday, November 7, at 6:00 pm
Dinner Theatre at Kent House Plantation • Tickets: $30
Featuring the culinary talents of Chef William LeRoux and a
Silent Auction benefitting Friends of the Rapides Library

The familiar characters, the small town setting, and the major racial themes of Harper Lee’s classic novel are compressed in this faithful adaptation of the novel to the stage. Scout is as spunky, warm-hearted, and curious about life in the stage play as she is in the novel and film, and Atticus Finch is just as passionate an advocate for justice. Tom Robinson is as Job-like, and the Ewell family as hate-filled and ignorant as we expect them to be. The supporting cast, with their asides and small town gossip, convey the social setting of the 1930s. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior—to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. *General audiences

Michael Robertson as Atticus • Samantha Garrett as Scout • Shane Havens as Jem - Zeb Matthews as Dill • Michael Boudreaux as Tom • Andrea Martin as Calpurnia -Stu Riggar as Judge Taylor • Michael Dalme as Prosecutor Gilmer With Paul Barbee • Anthony LaCroix • H. Wendell Isadore • Reverend Chadwick Godfrey • Dominic Brooks • Jim Leggett • Bradley Smith • Jerry Havens • Paula Antee • Theresa Louviere • Kathleen Pharis

Tickets: (318) 442-1800, Kent House Plantation (318) 487-5998

Rapides Public Library Westside Branch (318) 442-2483

Rapides Public Library Main Branch (318) 442-1858

A premiere community theatre, City Park Players is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization committed to offering quality cultural activities and experiences to the entire Central Louisiana community through live theatre productions, programming, and education. This production is supported, in part, by grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and Roy O. Martin Foundation as administered by the Arts Council of Central Louisiana. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.  Additional support comes from our patrons and donors and people like you who believe that community theatre enriches our lives and enhances our quality of life.