![]() ![]() ![]() This may be set in the post-Civil Rights era, but it’s clear we’re still in White Supremacist country.ĭirector Ethan McSweeny makes use of the high wooden walls of James Noone’s revolving set as a screen to show us events beyond the courthouse, starting with blurred backwoods footage over which a traumatized child’s voice cries out in desperation, “Daddy!” That voice belongs to the unseen Tonya, a 10-year-old African-American girl savagely raped and beaten by a pair of drunken, drugged-out rednecks. While the story is set in the early ‘80s, Grisham was being less than subtle about the lingering reach of a recent past of segregation, KKK rallies and lynchings when he named his fictional Mississippi town Clanton (geddit?), and the county circuit judge Omar Noose (geddit?). 22 publication of Grisham’s Sycamore Row, a sequel to A Time to Kill that sends Brigance back to the same courtroom for another incendiary race-related case. It can also be no accident that the Broadway opening coincides with Doubleday’s Oct. The producers appear to be counting on most of their audience to have seen the popular 1996 Joel Schumacher film version, given that in the central role of resourceful young defense attorney Jake Brigance, they cast Sebastian Arcelus ( House of Cards), who bears a notable resemblance to his screen counterpart Matthew McConaughey. PHOTOS: 11 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years ![]()
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