This riveting show does justice to a classic tale

QUITE simply, Aaron Sorkin’s stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird is mesmerising. His Oscar-winning adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel about racial injustice in 1930s Alabama keeps you spellbound until the end when the cast says "All rise"

- Jackie Chappell

> Aaron Shosanya as Tom Robinson

The story is told in a series of flashbacks through the eyes of Scout, sublimely played by Anna Munden, right, as the clear voice of innocence.

Scout recalls the summer of the trial when her father Atticus Finch (Richard Coyle) defended Tom Robinson (Aaron Shosanya), a black man accused of the rape of white girl Mayella Ewell.

With her brother Jem and their friend Dill, Scout and the children form a Greek chorus, their childhood playfulness and innocence contrasting with scenes of courtroom division.

Coyle, reprising his West End role as Finch, is superb as the measured defence lawyer who faces up to injustice, and even danger to his family, as he tries to live up to his own ideals.