This weekend, on October 20th, 2013 the stage adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller A Time To Kill opens this weekend on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. (It is currently playing there in "preview" mode.)
Adapted by Rupert Holmes and directed by Ethan McSweeny, A Time To Kill is the incendiary story of a Southern community torn in half by an unspeakable crime. As the shocking news hits the public, small town America becomes the center of a media storm, where innocence is the victim, race is on trial and lives hang in the balance.
In a note from the playwright, Holmes says, "John Grisham's classic first novel is a sprawling work on the scale of Dickens or Trollope. Scores of important, pivotal characters appear or are referenced, with enough sub-plots and back stories for each worthy of a book of their own. The clear challenge for me was how to translate and adapt such an expansive work into the frame of a stage play, its action compressed into two-plus hours of focused drama following the same arc of the original work. Thus, I decided to bring the whole steamy story of vengeance in Mississippi into the hothouse of staid Clanton Courthouse, hopefully distilling it down to a hybrid that represented the very essence of the story's conflict."
For more information about the show, visit the production's website. Watch a trailer, below.
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