York Theatre Royal, and touringHarper Lee's 1960 story of a young girl's growing understanding of the dark complexities of human nature is one of the most powerfully compassionate novels ever written. Set in racially segregated 1930s Alabama, it builds slowly towards the trial of a black man accused of raping a white girl. Events are seen through the eyes of "Scout" Finch, whose father has been appointed defence law…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM on February 19, 2011