Inherit The Wind

Friday, 18 September 2009 - Sunday, 20 December 2009

The Old Vic, 103 The Cut, Southbank, SE1 8NB

How Much: £46.00 (Highest Price) , £15.00 (Lowest Price)

To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Darwin's 'The Origin of the Species', The Old Vic presents Inherit The Wind, starring Artistic Director Kevin Spacey.

Inherit the Wind is the story of Bertram Cates, a school teacher on trial for teaching the theory of evolution against state law. But will belief defeat science in a court of law? In the American South? What do you think?

Based on the true story of Tennessee science teacher John Scopes and the 'Scopes Monkey Trial', this play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee originally stood as a metaphor for McCarthyism, with evolution hardly contentious in 1950s America. Fast forward a half century and the Creationists are in their pomp.

This production stars Spacey (The Usual Suspects, American Beauty) and British heavyweight David Troughton (Sharpe, Drop the Dead Donkey) and is directed by Trevor Nunn as he continues his bounce-back from the disastrous Gone With The Wind.

A riveting and bizarrely relevant face off between faith and science with stellar production values, this is one of the shows of the autumn.