A New Vic production
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee, directed by Peter Leslie Wild
A huge cast of more than 30 brings this great American drama to the stage. Inspired by real-life events in 1925 Tennessee, an unassuming high school teacher finds himself at the centre of a worldwide controversy.
On a scorching hot day in the small, Bible-belt town of Hillsboro, biology teacher Bertram Cates stands accused. His crime? Teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution to his children.
In an epic courtroom battle, two legal giants go head to head when a community puts freedom of speech on trial. On one side, traditional values; on the other, humanity’s right to think for itself.
Saturday 31 May–Saturday 14 June 2014
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