A New Play Based on
the Actual Transcripts of The Scopes Trial
A New Play Based on the Actual
Transcripts of The Scopes Trial
This not Inherit the Wind, the 1955 play written by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (the movie version, which came out in 1960, starred
Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly). Inherit the Wind used only a
handful of lines from the original trial. It was not a dramatization of the trial,
nor was it a history lesson. Unlike Inherit the Wind this play has been drawn
from the actual 1925 trial transcripts. It concerned several issues: the rights
of taxpayers to control what is taught in public schools, separation of church
and state, academic freedom and the tensions between religion and science.
(Cast Size 12 - GENDER NEUTRAL CASTING – Simple
Set)