AARON Sorkin’s acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird comes to Bath Theatre Royal from 11th to 22nd November on its first UK and Ireland tour after its critically praised runs on Broadway and in the West End. Richard Coyle plays Atticus Finch, the role created by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film which won two Academy Awards including Best Actor.
This acclaimed Broadway and West End production was adapted for the stage by Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin with Tony Award-winning director, Bartlett Sher. Aaron Sorkin has had many years of success on stage and screen. He is perhaps best known as the creator and screenwriter of the multi-award-winning hit TV series The West Wing, and as the screenwriter for The Social Network, for which he received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Writer’s Guild Award. He is also the writer-creator of The Newsroom and the author of the Academy Award-winning film A Few Good Men.
Bartlett Sher spent more than ten years as director of New York’s Lincoln Center Theater and has also headed acclaimed productions such as My Fair Lady, The King and I and South Pacific.
Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird is the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence. Inspired by novelist Harper Lee’s own childhood, the book 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.
Richard Coyle’s many films and plays include Player Kings alongside Sir Ian McKellen, Heads of State, Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore, Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, starring alongside Kiernan Shipka, and on stage as Macduff in Macbeth opposite Kenneth Branagh in New York, and in Bath playing Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger in 2006.
He is joined by Anna Munden as his daughter Scout Finch, Gabriel Scott as Jem Finch, Dylan Malyn as Dill Harris, Andrea Davy as Calpurnia, Stephen Boxer as Judge Taylor, Aaron Shosanya as Tom Robinson, Oscar Pearce as Bob Ewell, Evie Hargreaves as Mayella Ewell, Richard Dempsey as Horace Gilmer, Sarah Finigan as Mrs. Dubose, Phillipa Flynn as Miss Stephanie / Dill’s Mother, Harry Attwell as Mr Cunningham / Boo (Arthur) Radley, Colin R Campbell as Sheriff Heck Tate and Simon Hepworth as Link Deas, with Paul Albertson, James Mitchell, Jonathan Rubin, Cheryl Burniston, Charlotte Luxford, Oyin Orija, Tiwai Muza, Tom Brace-Jenkins, and John J. O’Hagan.
The creative team includes set designer Miriam Buether, Ed Pierce (design supervisor), Ann Roth (costume), Jennifer Tipton (lighting), Scott Lehrer (sound), Adam Guettel (original score) and Kimberley Grigsby (musical supervisor).
The tour of To Kill a Mockingbird opened to great critical acclaim at Leeds Playhouse this autumn, and includes dates at Plymouth Theatre Royal from 10th to 14th March 2026 and Mayflower Theatre, Southampton from 24th 28th March.
Photographs by Johan Persson