It is a brilliant piece of work that shows the power of ideas and the need for the freedom to express ideas that differ from and challenge those we hold. In interviews decades after the play and movie came out, Lawrence said that the play, written in 1955, was a response to McCarthyism. Yet, Inherit the Wind is not just about science and religion. This matter, sadly, is still debated today, which makes the play as timely as ever. That real historic event brought the attention of the nation to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, as two titans - William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow - battled in a courtroom over the place of Darwin’s theory of evolution in the classroom. Lee, was inspired by the “Scopes Monkey Trial” of 1925. Inherit the Wind, the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E.
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