1st Night Photos: Inherit the Wind Breezes In
An eclectic range of guests, from artist Tracey Emin to pop singer Tom Fletcher (McFly) attended last night’s opening of Inherit the Wind, at the Old Vic (1 October 2009, previews from 18 September), a production that marks a reunion for director Trevor Nunn and Kevin Spacey, who last worked together on Richard II in 2005.
First performed in 1955 and often considered one of the great American plays of the twentieth century, Inherit the Wind
is a fictionalised account the famous 1925 Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial in
which science teacher John Scopes was accused of violating a Tennessee
state statute by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his
students. In the play, two legal titans confront each other when a
community puts freedom of thought on trial.
TO SCROLL THROUGH ALL OF INHERIT THE WIND‘s 1st NIGHT PHOTOS,
JUST CLICK ON THE “NEXT >” LINKS BELOW THE FOLLOWING FRAME.
PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.
Inherit the Wind continues at the Old Vic until 20 December 2009, and is followed, from 19 January to 3 April 2010 (previews from 7 January), by David Grindley‘s revival of John Guare’s Olivier award-winning play Six Degrees of Separation (See News, 5 Jun 2009).
