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Solid Performances Fuel Firebelly's 'Mockingbird'

By Matt Reville
The Sun Gazette
May 1, 2006

With a story line still powerful all these years later, and with a cast that meshes well together under the direction of Kathi Gollwitzer, Firebelly Productions' new incarnation of "To Kill a Mockingbird” proves that - even without substantial revision to the original - classic tales can hold a modern audience's attention.

The story of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama, and the white lawyer who takes on the futile task of defending him, cemented the relationship between audiences and Gregory Peck when it appeared on film in the early 1960s.

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An inspiring look at integrity in the face of bigotry

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel became a well remembered movie starring Gregory Peck. Kathi Gollwitzer directs one of two stage versions, the one that uses one of the town ladies as a narrator rather than placing the story in flashback narrated by the grown version of the young girl who is at the center of the story. That story is so simple, so strong and so absorbing that it can make up for many shortcomings in a production.  (Full Review)

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