Bust out your monocles and tea sets… it’s time to go to the theater…
Definitely not a live music performance but I didn’t think there was much need for starting a live theater thread…
At the end of December my wife and I took our god daughters to see the touring production of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and it was absolutely stellar. Sorkin made some updates which aren’t so much changes as they are leaning into some elements in the story which are kind of glossed over. It was really thought provoking. Through the lens of someone who has lived through the last few years there are elements of the story I missed (or just didn’t understand). While Atticus is still presented as a person of great decency, he is also examined a bit more critically in terms of his hubris, faith in the system, and White savior complex. It is one of the most well-written pieces I have seen in the theater in a really long time.
Richard Thomas (“John Boy” Walton) played Atticus and he was amazing. The woman who played Scout in the 1962, Mary Badham, is also in the cast as Miss. Dubose. Kind of cool that she played both the youngest and oldest character in the story. My only complaint is that some of the accents drifted in and out.
Even if you aren’t a regular fan of live theater, it really is something to behold if you have a chance.
) , and a Fender. But also a classical guitar – which he played most of the songs on, which I thought was a bit surprising; and now going back to the Evening Machines album, I totally hear it.
