newtheatre/history-project

---
title: Inherit the Wind
season: In House
period: Autumn
playwright: Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
season_sort: 30
venue: Portland Ballroom
date_start: 1974-11-20
date_end: 1974-11-22

cast:
  - role: Rachel Brown
    name: Susan Elliott
  - role: Meeker
    name: Nigel Hughes
  - role: Bertram Cates
    name: Ed Nally
  - role: Mr Goodfellow
    name: Nick Downing
  - role: Mrs Krebs
    name: Anne Murphy
  - role: Rev Jeremiah Brown
    name: Geoff Rayson
  - role: Mrs Bollinger
    name: Diane Gregson
  - role: Mr Bannister
    name: Danny Sullivan
  - role: Melinda
    name: Jackie Huthwaite
  - role: Howard
    name: Alvin Downie
  - role: Mrs Loomis
    name: Sue Middleton
  - role: Hot Dog Man
    name: John Napier
  - role: Mrs McLain
    name: Catherine Churchill
  - role: Mrs Blair
    name: Claire Rothwell
  - role: Elijah
    name: Tim Sluckin
  - role: "E.K. Hornbeck"
    name: Nick Williams
  - role: Timmy
    name: Graham Compton
  - role: Sunny
    name: Sharon Broddel
  - role: Mayor
    name: Richard Truman
  - role: Mayor's Wife
    name: Valerie Hodgkinson
  - role: Matthew Harrison Brady
    name: Andrew Pearson
  - role: Mrs Brady
    name: Sheridan Davis
  - role: Tom Davenport
    name: Kier Barry
  - role: Henry Drummond
    name: Hugh Simon
  - role: Judge
    name: Chris Brazier
  - role: Jesse Dunlap
    name: Charlie Dunnett
  - role: Sillers
    name: Charle Barnecutt
  - role: Ted Finney
    name: Stephen Hopker
  - role: Reuters Man
    name: Chris Herbert
  - role: Harry Y Esterbrook
    name: Tino Kay

crew:
  - role: Director
    name: John Thewlis
  - role: Producer
    name: Ric Shield
  - role: Designer
    name: Eugene Hedley
  - role: Set Designer
    name: Ken Marshall
  - role: Set Construction
    name: Andy Reeves
  - role: Set Construction
    name: Terry Chapman
  - role: Set Assistant
    name: Ceinwen Rowlands
  - role: Set Assistant
    name: Ruth Long
  - role: Costume
    name: Crispin Harris
  - role: Costume
    name: Catherine Churchill
  - role: Costume 
    name: Anne Davis
  - role: Costume Assistant
    name: Dorrie Cook
  - role: Costume Assistant
    name: Susan White
  - role: Lighting Designer
    name: Jim Cowell
  - role: Lighting Assistant
    name: Trevor Dryson
  - role: Lighting Assistant
    name: Martin Roff
  - role: Lighting Assistant
    name: Tim Hunt
  - role: Lighting Assistant
    name: Archie Roberts
  - role: Properties
    name: Janet Bell
  - role: Properties
    name: Lesley Foxton
  - role: Poster
    name: Tyrel S Broadbent

assets:
  - type: poster
    image: cN7P8RG
  - type: programme
    image: NWPwfmc
    page: 1
  - type: programme
    image: 3XHkrg4
    page: 2
---

Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. The play, which debuted in 1955, is a story that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials.

The debate over creationism versus evolution has contemporary resonance, as evidenced by the play's numerous revivals and screen adaptations decades after its initial theatrical run.