‘Mockingbird’ in St. Martinville

Racial tension, justice comes to Duchamp Opera House

Posted April 4th, 2008
SCOUT FINCH, played by New Iberia 5th grader Anne Caffery, wishes her daddy was more of a doer and less of a thinker.
Ken Grissom

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St. Martinville — Harper Lee’s classic novel of the South, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” comes alive at the Duchamp Opera House this month with the Evangeline Players presentation starring Anne Caffery as Scout, Vincent P. Barras as Atticus, Travis Guillory as Jem and Justin Judice as Dill. The play is directed by Mac Stearns and produced by Walter Brown.
In the Christopher Sergel stage adaptation, the grown-up Jean Louise Finch — a k a Scout — played here by Katherine Caffery, real-life mother of the 5th grade star.
The story, set in Alabama during the Great Depression, is probably most indelibly etched in the national consciousness by the 1962 movie version starring Gregory Peck as the gentle-but-strong lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.
The play will continue April 11 and 13, and April 18 and 20. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. on Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays.
Tickets are available at the Duchamp Opera House and Shamrock Office Supply.
Go to www.evangelineplayers.org for more information.

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