Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee




Directed by
Al Rickert

Performances
April 21-24, 1982

at the Goddard Center


by Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee Inherit the Wind is a fictional version of the 1925 Scopes Trial. Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution to a high school class.



In Tennessee, state law prohibited teaching evolution. The play is meant to criticize the anti-Communist investigations that took place in the U.S.



The authors used the Scope’s trial as a platform to explore threats to learning and intellectual freedom. 




 The town of Hillsboro, Tennessee, is the site of this monumental legal clash between Matthew Harrison Brady, a leading Christian scholar and former Presidential candidate, and opponent for the defense Henry Drummond, a defender of free thought and the leading legal mind of his day.



   The whole town watches along with the world as this precedent-setting social battle plays out.