Inherit the Wind
| Staff | |
| Producer | Beth Dewey |
| Director | K. Davette See |
| Assistant Director | Robin Harris |
| Stage Manager | Jed Metzger |
| Set Design | Rob See |
| Master Carpenter | Rich Kaiser |
| Props | Lori Foster |
| Costumer | Kae Jenny-Spencer |
| Lighting Designer | Mark Gaetano |
| Sound Designer | Ray Trimble |
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| Cast | |
| Henry Drummond | James (Dan) Pearson |
| Matthew Harrison Brady | Allen Siversen |
| E. K. Hornbeck | Doug Doughty |
| Rachel Brown | Charity Berg |
| Bert (Bertram) Cates | Robert Hamilton |
| Rev. Jeremiah Brown | Scott Lynch |
| Mrs. Sarah Brady | Sandra Aranda |
| Mr. Meeker | Mark Gaetano |
| understudy | Peter Mandel |
| Mayor | Joseph Biafore |
| understudy | Mike Perry |
| Tom Davenport | Leslie Lamcke |
| Howard Blair | Zach Gollar |
| Calvin Nuttall | |
| understudy | Luke Hamilton |
| Judge | Jon Szczepaniak |
| Mr. Dunlap | William Rumold |
| Elijah | John Brewer |
| Mr. Sillers | Wayne Dewey |
| Harry Y. Esterbrook | John Brewer |
| Mrs. Blair | Nanci Brand |
| understudy | Glynis Crab |
| Mrs. Goodfellow | Terri Fauss |
| Mrs. Krebs | Trudy Parks |
| Mr.Bannister | Peder Eriksson |
| Melinda | Mckena McElroy |
| Samantha Quijano | |
| understudies | Colette Bowen |
| Kaitlin Rooney | |
| Mrs. Loomis | Melissa Cachopo |
| Hot Dog Man | Howard Barnes |
| Mrs. McLain | Haylee Merrill |
| understudy | Glynis Crab |
| Hurdy Gurdy Man | John Soto |
| Timmy | Luke Hamilton |
| understudies | Zach Gollar |
| Calvin Nuttall | |
| Katie | Colette Bowen |
| Kaitlin Rooney | |
| Eskimo Pie Hawker | John Soto |
| Reuters Man | John Brewer |
| Phil | John Soto |
| Photographer | Weilan Lui |
| understudy | Glynis Crab |
| Reporter | Howard Barnes |
| Court Stenographer | Stephanie Marquez |
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The national debate over science and faith in the classroom comes to a head as a schoolteacher is accused in 1925 of disobeying the law against teaching evolution.
This drama about the right to think in the McCarthy era was based on the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in violation of state law. Scopes deliberately courted arrest to challenge what he and his supporters saw as an unjust law, and the trial became a national cause when The Baltimore Sun, represented by the famed (and atheistic) journalist H. L. Mencken, hired attorney Clarence Darrow to defend Scopes. The prosecuting attorney was crusading politician William Jennings Bryan, once a serious contender for the Presidency, now a relic of a past era. In both the play and film versions of Inherit the Wind, the names and places are changed, but the basic chronology was retained, along with most of the original court transcripts. John Scopes becomes Bertram Cates; Clarence Darrow is Henry Drummond; William Jennings Bryan is Matthew Harrison Brady; and H. L. Mencken is E. K. Hornbeck. Dayton, Tennessee is transformed into Hillsboro — or, as the relentlessly cynical Hornbeck characterizes it, “Heavenly Hillsboro.”
The play is known for having the best witness-stand confrontations ever on stage.
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Photos by Morgan Hill Times and Rob See