MEET THE WRITER ...ALAN SPENCE.

 

 

Congress Theatre. Eastbourne 3rd December 2025.    Since moving to Eastbourne, I have enjoyed a number of visits to the Congress Theatre, to see Manfred Mann, Squeeze, Diversity, Jools Holland and even James Martin. I know, a long story.  Only recently have we ventured to see theatre there and the Harper Lee classic was as good as any starting point. Not least because it was a West End Production by Jonathan Church Theatre productions, opening at the Leeds Playhouse in September and arriving in Eastbourne in early December. 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. Successful lawyer, Atticus Finch, encourages kindness and empathy in his children, but is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town t...