For the first time in a number of years, Un-Common is excited to offer an opportunity for young actors to be involved in a straight play, as opposed to our usual musical offerings. Dramatized by Christopher Sergel from the book by Harper Lee, this play is a meaningful work of art. 

Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, in 1935 is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the people of her small town but there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface of the life here.  The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Things get bitter; to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph.

The show will be directed by Meg Dussault and will be presented at The Orpheum Foxboro on April 27-29, 2007. Auditions will be held in January 2007. Keep checking for audition details.