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Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence










Brown, as well as a crowd of townspeople and press. Brady arrives on the train with his wife Sarah and is welcomed by the mayor and Rev. In the square, the townspeople prepare for the arrival of Brady, a three-time Presidential candidate, readying the things they will sell and preparing a banner that says "Read Your Bible!" A cynical reporter named Hornbeck from Baltimore comments on the surroundings. Cates holds that he did nothing wrong by teaching the Darwinian theory of evolution to his students. Bert and Rachel speak in the courtroom, and Rachel urges him to confess to wrongdoing, for Matthew Harrison Brady is coming to prosecute him. This visit is a secret from her father, a minister.

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence

Soon, a young woman named Rachel enters the courthouse square and asks a bailiff named Meeker if she can see Bert Cates. Inherit the Wind opens in the small town of Hillsboro, where a little boy named Howard teases a little girl named Melinda about once being a worm.












Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence