“ALL RISE for this powerfully uplifting theatrical event”5 rating
Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic. Now this thrilling courtroom drama comes to Nottingham Playhouse.
Acclaimed stage and screen actor Richard Coyle (Heads of State, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Fantastic Beasts and Player Kings) returns to this iconic production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch, reprising the role he played to great critical acclaim in the 2022 West End Production. Encouraging kindness and empathy in his children, Atticus is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it.
Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by novelist Harper Lee’s own childhood and 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.
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“Mockingbird soars anew in Sorkin’s blistering adaptation. SPELLBINDING”5 rating
Oscar winning writer Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird is paired with Bartlett Sher’s visionary direction. Aaron Sorkin has had many years of great success on stage and screen. He is perhaps best known as the creator and screenwriter of 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 Academy Award-winning film A Few Good Men. Bartlett Sher spent over ten years as Director of New York’s Lincoln Centre Theater, and has also headed acclaimed productions such as My Fair Lady, The King and I and South Pacific.
“POWERFUL. IMPORTANT. DEEPLY MOVING. I wept as I rose at the end”5 rating
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Richard Coyle’s dynamic body of work spans film, television, and theatre.
Last year, Richard led Rob Icke’s Player Kings as King Henry IV alongside Sir Ian McKellen’s Falstaff at the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End. He can currently be seen in the action comedy feature film Heads of State, with Idris Elba, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and John Cena, on Amazon Prime. More recently, he filmed The Constable, a WWII historical thriller, starring with Clive Owen and directed by Oscar winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, and he is currently completing principal photography on BBC1’s period drama The Other Bennet Sister, with Richard E Grant, Ruth Jones and Indira Varma.
Richard joined the Wizarding World franchise portraying Aberforth Dumbledore, brother of Jude Law’s Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. His film work also includes W.E., directed by Madonna; Nicolas Winding Refn’s British remake of Pusher, and Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Additional film work includes Ridley Scott’s A Good Year with Russell Crowe, The Libertine alongside Johnny Depp, Mike Leigh’s Oscar-nominated Topsy-Turvy, Renny Harlin’s 5 Days Of War with Val Kilmer and Andy Garcia, Franco Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre and the independent cult favourites: Grabbers, Human Traffic and Franklyn
On television, Richard is widely known for his role as ‘Father Blackwood’ in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, starring alongside Kiernan Shipka. He first gained attention as one of the leads of the breakout BBC comedy Coupling, playing the hapless ‘Jeff”, and later led ITV flagship drama Whistleblowers. His other notable television work includes the BBC’s Lorna Doone and The Fall, occult drama Strange, C4’s The Gathering and Born to Kill, Sword of Honour, Life of Crime, Hard Sun, Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, Wives and Daughters, The Six Four, USA Network’s Covert Affairs, NBC Universal’s pirate epic Crossbones with John Malkovich, and Amazon’s couture drama The Collection.
A seasoned stage performer, Richard led the West End cast of To Kill a Mockingbird as ‘Atticus Finch’ at The Gielgud, directed by Bartlett Sher. He played ‘Macduff’ in Macbeth opposite Kenneth Branagh in New York, and originated the role of ‘Larry Lamb’ in James Graham’s Ink, directed by Rupert Goold, for the Almeida Theatre, and its West End transfer to the Duke of York’s. He was voted Best Supporting Actor by the public at the Theatregoers’® Choice Awards for Peter Gill’s The York Realist at the Royal Court and in the West End. Additional theatre work includes starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the UK premiere of Proof at the Donmar Warehouse, for which theatre he also starred in After Miss Julie and Polar Bears. He played the title character in Michael Grandage’s Don Carlos for the Sheffield Crucible and the Gielgud, ‘Jimmy Porter’ in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal Bath, and worked with Harold Pinter on The Lover and The Collection, directed by Jamie Lloyd for the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End.