To Kill A Mockingbird

All roles open.

For the children roles age does not matter as long as you look the age of the characters.

JEAN LOUISE FINCH Scout grown older, she wears simple modern clothes.

JEM FINCH Scout’s brother, an active boy, a few years older than her.

ATTICUS FINCH Their father, he is a tall, quietly impressive, civilized man of nearly fifty. He wears glasses because of his poor sight in his left eye and looks with his right when he wants to see something well. He acts as defense counsel for Tom Robinson.

CALPURNIA The black housekeeper who has helped to bring up Scout and Jem since their mother died.

DILL Friend of Scout and Jem. He is a little older than Scout and is small, blonde and wise. He is neat, well dressed with an undercurrent of sophistication, but his laugh is sudden and happy.

MISS MAUDE ATKINSON A sympathetic neighbour

MISS STEPHANIE CRAWFORD The neighborhood scold.

MRS DUBOSE An elderly and bad tempered neighbor, she supports herself with a stick.

MR CUNNINGHAM A farmer and client of Atticus Finch.

MAYELLA EWELL A poor girl of nineteen, accustomed to strenuous labor, who accuses Tom Robinson of attacking her.

BOB EWELL Her father, a little bantam cock of a man. He is ignorant and sharp tempered.

MR GILMER The counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Tom Robinson.

NATHAN RADLEY A pale, thin, leathery man, Boo Radley’s older brother and guardian.

ARTHUR BOO RADLEY A mysterious, tall figure, pale, nervous and withdrawn.

TOM ROBINSON A powerful, young black man, but with his left hand curled up and held to his chest.

HELEN ROBINSON His wife.

REVEREND SYKES A black minister, conservatively dressed in a black suit, white shirt and black tie.

HECK TATE The sheriff.

JUDGE TAYLOR The judge who tried the case of Tom Robinson.

COURT CLERK

THE MOB A group of men dressed in farm clothes.