Abstract
It’s Saturday night, I’m ten or eleven years old and I’m watching the film To Kill a Mocking Bird on our old TV in the basement. My family is upstairs watching Hockey Night in Canada on the new TV — the one that comes with a turntable and AM/FM radio, all wrapped up in an oak cabinet the size of a coffin. I follow the film pretty well for someone who doesn’t understand yet what rape is. Racism — another of the film’s big themes and also a concept that is new to me — is easier to grasp. The story of this film is complicated but clear, and the experience of watching it — it’ll be another three years before I read the novel in high school — contains everything that I now want children watching theatre to experience.
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