Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence
and Robert E. Lee
Directed by
Fred Collins
Performances
Sept. 10-13, 2009
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.
Townspeople: Michael Black, Cheryl Cayla, Lauren Growall, Mary Ann Keester, Chelsae Simmons, Jenenetta Worley, Gina Quary
Monkey: Lola
Monkey Handles: Mickey Pierce & Janet Sadler Schmid of the Little River Zoo
| Cast (in alphabetical order) | |
| Rachel Brown | Taloa Alexander |
| Goodfellow | Michael Black |
| Janie | Bailey Brandenburg |
| Bertram Cates | Steve Brandenburg |
| Sillers | Michael Bray |
| Mayor | Tim Burson |
| Hornbeck | Carl Clark |
| Mrs Brady | Mary Lee Collins |
| Mrs Krebs | Lisa Cowan |
| Timmy | Aaron Edge |
| Melinda | Kalina Keester |
| Susie | Bailey Loper |
| Mrs McLain | Peggy Miller |
| Bannister | Weldon Miller |
| Meeker | Andre Moore |
| Davenport | Dave Mordy |
| Mrs Bollinger | Judy Parkey |
| Elijah | Ernest C. Parks |
| Storekeeper | Rene Peters |
| Howard | Austin Powell |
| Mathew Harrison Brady | John Pryor |
| Rev. Brown | John Scaggs |
| Radio Man/Hot Dog Man | Jon Scott |
| Judge | J. Robinette Smith |
| Mrs Blair | Monica Stolfa |
| Seth | Bob Waltz |
| Photographer/Dunlap | Chuck Watterson |
| Henry Drummond | Joel Wellnitz |
| Crew | |
| Stage Manager | Ann Perkins |
| Crew | Monica Stolfa, Clayton |
| Black, Janie Herriott, | |
| Lisa Cowan | |
| Light Designer | Joe Smith |
| Light Operator | Liz Waltz |
| Costumes | Cast & Crew |
| Specialty Props | Joe Smith, Liz Waltz |
| Set Constructio | Michael Bray, Steve |
| Brandenburg, Michael & | |
| Clayton Black, Carl | |
| Clark, Fred Collins, | |
| Chuck Watterson, Joel | |
| Wellnitz, Monica Stolfa, | |
| Mary Ann Keester, | |
| Dave Mordy, Ann | |
| Perkins, John Pryor, | |
| Kyle Hetzel | |
| Cast Photos | Traci Martin Studio 107 |
