Inherit the Wind

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One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution now on Broadway starring Tony AwardWinners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy and Directed by Tony Award Winner Doug Hughes The accused was a slight frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus the chief gladiators being the two great legal giants of the century. Locked in mortal combat they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . Were still arguing this caseall the way to the White House. Chicago Tribune Powerful . . . a crackling good courtroom play . . . that provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater. Copley News Service This historical drama . . . deserves respect. The Columbus Dispatch