![]() ![]() And it's an even richer experience to read it as an adult, so I really recommend that.” I read it a second time just to prepare for adaptation. “But I'll tell you something: most people who have read this book as young people really would get a lot out of it if they read it again as adults. And so when I read the book, I was shocked by it and I was amused by it because there's a lot that's very funny in it. So my sense of justice and injustice was no different from my classmates. And that's right around the time that young people are starting to develop a sense of justice and community and their place in a society. On the first time he read Harper Lee’s novel ![]() “Everybody is going through a crisis between what they think the world should be and what they find out it really is,” he says. He says the play depicts the loss of innocence that happens not just for Scout, Finch’s daughter, but also Finch himself. It's a play about the loss of innocence and what it means to be a parent and how you bring your children into the reality of the world with all of its failings.” “But it's also a play about raising children. “Of course it's a play about social justice,” he says. Richard Thomas in a courtroom scene from "To Kill a Mockinbird" at the Citizens Bank Opera House. The play has kicked off a national tour, with an early stop in Boston.įor Thomas, the play is relevant to the racial and social justice movements of the present day but it also speaks more broadly to the themes of aspiration, belief and parenting. Thomas plays the man - long beloved, morally complex - in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of the novel. He’s on stages around the country.įinch is a small-town Alabama lawyer who defends Tom Robinson, a Black man wrongly accused of assaulting a white woman in the 1930s. Now he reprises another Depression-era role: Atticus Finch, of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” This time, however, he’s not in front of a camera. (Courtesy Julieta Cervantes)Īctor Richard Thomas might be best known for his Emmy-winning role as John-Boy in the iconic 1970s television series “The Waltons.” Welch as Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]() Facebook Email Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch and Yaegel T. ![]()
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