To Kill a Mocking Bird, was an excellent play for various reasons. However, one of the most important reasons for me was the effective way the play would summarize succinctly longer narrative portions in the book. If the play were to flesh out every page of the original book, it would last many more hours and likely put everyone to sleep. Instead, they effectively used Jean Louise Finch, Jeremy Finch, and Dill (Charles Baker Harris), to recap what occurs between key scenes. This is best seen put into action  with the scene including Boo Radley, and  Bob Ewell’s attack on the children. Instead of describing the whole chase and all the details  from when the children left the pageant  to getting chased on their way home,  it is quickly summarised by Scout. It then proceeds to the scene where Jem and Scout make it home and Atticus calls the police.   This also happens when the play recounts the rest of of Dill’s last summer with the children, summarising events and talking about how it was Dill’s last summer in Maycomb.  This lets the play be moving and not lose moment to possibly dull moments that would not translate well into a play adaption.  Furthermore, the play was interesting as it was able to be humorous, which you would not normally think to be possible  given the grave tone the original book is written with. The humor came in the form of the kids and their witty comments and observations through the play. It was interesting  to see as it depicted the flexibility in how a director can decide to carry out a play adaption. The directors artistic silence.