An interracial cast of more than 20 Nicholls State University students and non-students will present “To Kill a Mockingbird” Thursday through Sunday, March 15 to 18, in Talbot Theater. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m., except for the final performance at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

The Nicholls Players, under the direction of Dr. Stanley Coleman, will stage the 1990 dramatization by Christopher Sergel of the Harper Lee novel, which won a 1961 Pulitzer Prize and then gained additional acclaim as the 1962 movie for which Gregory Peck won a best-actor Academy Award.

The play, a coming of age story set in the 1930s in Maycomb, Ala., concerns tolerance and justice as seen from the perspectives of a young girl and her later recollections as an adult.

Joey Pierce, English education junior from Raceland, will have the role of the white lawyer (Atticus Finch) who defends a black man (Tom Robinson) played by Irvin Williams, computer science junior from St. James. Laura Templet, English education junior from Raceland, will have the role of the adult narrator.

The play will feature three grade-school children of the area. The little girl (Scout Finch) will be played by Tessa LaFleur, daughter of Dr. Gary LaFleur of the Nicholls Department of Biological Sciences; she is in the fourth grade at St. Joseph Elementary. Other children will be played by Bryant Scott of Houma, a home-schooled eighth-grader, and Tatum Gehbauer, a sixth-grader at St. Genevieve Elementary in Thibodaux.

Walter Brown of Lafayette, who holds a master’s degree in theater design from Purdue University, is the set designer, and Bernadette Dugas, Nicholls instructor of speech, is in charge of costumes.

Tickets will go on sale Monday, March 5, at $5 for students and $10 for general admission. For reservations, call the Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication at (985) 448-4586.