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Lively Drama At
College Tackles
Heavy Issues

In 1925, a Tennessee school-
teacher named Scopes was put
on trial for teaching the theory
of evolution. Scopes lost his
case and the right to teach, but
the famous "Monkey Trial”
made an impact on people’s
views worldwide. Sixty-four
years later the issue is irrelevant.

Or is it? Think what would
happen if someone was teaching
our children that violence is
good, or the earth is flat. Or
think of the controversy over
Salman Rushdie’s book "The
Satanic Verses".

When the Douglas College
theatre department presents
Jerome Lawrence’s and Robert
E, Lee’s Inherit the Wind in
March, they won’t just
dramatize an important piece of
history. This absorbing produc-
tion, based on the "Monkey
Trial", makes a strong plea for
intellectual freedom, with as

 

much relevance to the present
day as at any time.

The action of the play is set in
a sweltering courtroom, where
two verbal giants - Drummond,
the agnostic defense lawyer, and
Brady, the fire-and-brimstone
fundamentalist - struggle over
ideas of right and wrong. The
townspeople watch on as their
unquestioning faith in the bible
and state law begins to crumble
at the edges.

Director Dorothy Jones says
that although the topic is quite
heavy and the action is based on
a real-life drama, this is "a very
lively production with brilliant
dialogue”.

Jones, a theatre instructor at
the College, says the issue of
freedom of speech keeps com-
ing back. "Christ, Copernicus,
and Galileo were all saying
things that were distasteful

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