
Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. Praise for Inherit the Wind 'A tidal wave of a drama.'New York World-Telegram And Sun Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence Robert E. We’re still arguing this case–all the way to the White House.” - Chicago Tribune

"A tidal wave of a drama." - New York World-Telegram And Sun One of the most moving and meaningful plays of our generation.

At stake was the freedom of every American.

The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. A classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution
