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Although the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" was the basis for this drama, it is not really, as the original trial was, an examination of the conflict between Darwin's theory of evolution and the Bible.  The authors' stated that,  "It assaults those who would constrict any human being's right to think, to teach, to learn. " Written in the the 1950's, playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee intended Inherit the Wind as a response to the threat to freedom presented by the anti-Communist hysteria of the McCarthy era. Lawrence and Lee used the Scopes Trial, then safely a generation in the past, as a vehicle for exploring the climate of anxiety and censorship that existed in 1950.  As we examine the political realities of our world today we must once again revisit the questions of personal freedom ( thinking, teaching and learning) versus societal safety and stability. Inherit the Wind does not purport to be a historically accurate depiction of the Scopes trial. Again from the authors, "The stage directions set the time as 'Not long ago.'  It might have been yesterday.  It could be tomorrow."  We will take that instruction literally. Come and watch The Players render this classic drama in light of  today's similar issues.