Malvern Theatre Players
Inherit the Wind
Evolution or Creation?
Scientific advancement or bigoted fundamentalism?
Inherit the Wind is the powerful drama of one of the most celebrated and defining courtroom battles of the 20th century.
Based on the infamous "monkey trial" of 1925 when a young teacher was pilloried for exposing children to the "subversive and improper2 theories of Charles Darwin. We see families, lovers, old friends and an entire community divided by conflicting beliefs in the full glare of the media spotlight and the sweltering heat of the distant summer.
But as we celebrate Darwin's bicentenary, those same timeless battles continue to be fought all over the world. Freedom of thought versus cencorship; civil liberties versus religious fundamentalism.
Always regarded as one of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre, this is living drama not a period piece.
"The greatest courtroom drama of the 20th century"
"One of the most powerful plays in American theatre"
Scientific advancement or bigoted fundamentalism?
Inherit the Wind is the powerful drama of one of the most celebrated and defining courtroom battles of the 20th century.
Based on the infamous "monkey trial" of 1925 when a young teacher was pilloried for exposing children to the "subversive and improper2 theories of Charles Darwin. We see families, lovers, old friends and an entire community divided by conflicting beliefs in the full glare of the media spotlight and the sweltering heat of the distant summer.
But as we celebrate Darwin's bicentenary, those same timeless battles continue to be fought all over the world. Freedom of thought versus cencorship; civil liberties versus religious fundamentalism.
Always regarded as one of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre, this is living drama not a period piece.
"The greatest courtroom drama of the 20th century"
"One of the most powerful plays in American theatre"
From 2nd September To 5th September
Times Evenings 7.30pm; Sat mat 2.30pm
Prices £12
Concessions Over 60s, unwaged and under 26s £8
Venue Forum Theatre
Genre Drama
“Inherit the Wind”; Review of Play at Malvern Theatre; 2nd Sept. 2009; by David Hallmark.
In June 1858 Alfred Russel Wallace revealed in his letter from the Indonesian spice island of Ternate to Charles Darwin the first fully argued evidence based document which expounded the theory of evolution. Darwin admitted to his friends on receipt of the letter that priority of the theory was...... more 
