West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin’s riveting stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the seminal American novel about racial injustice that became a Broadway and West End sensation, will now embark on its first ever UK & Ireland tour, visiting Southampton next March.
Successful lawyer, Atticus Finch, encourages kindness and empathy in his children, but is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it.
Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by novelist Harper Lee’s own childhood and has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was long at the top of the banned book lists.
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Aaron Sorkin is best known for The West Wing, and as the screenwriter for The Social Network. He is also the writer-creator of The Newsroom and Academy Award-winning film A Few Good Men.
To Kill a Mockingbird will be at Mayflower Theatre from March 24 to 28 2026.
Tickets go on general sale on February 7 at mayflower.org.uk
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