The Radley Place - "To Kill a Mockingbird"

This is a picture of the Radley House for the Brock Players production of "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Brock Players, Mocksville, North Carolina
"The Radley House"

From the description of the Radley house from the book, the set designer has created the house. “The Radley place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking South, one faced its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the colour of the slate-grey yard around it. Rain-rotten shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard - a "swept" yard that was never swept - where johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance.” 


The house is almost a character itself in the play. There is an air of mystery that surrounds the house and the house stands out from everything else in the town. There are all kinds of rumors about the house and kids were thought to never go inside and always avoided it. In front of the house is the gifting tree and we see that Boo Radley isnt a bad man after all leading us to the thought that appearance isn't the reality of the house. The house also signifies the odd and unknown that the society tries so hard to push aside and isolate.  In the book the house is a turning point  since it brings not just mystery but also answers to questions that people avoided for so long.