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The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

1:55:42
Docudrama
Science
Education Level
K-12

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The Scopes Trial, over the right to teach evolution in public schools, reaffirmed the importance of intellectual freedom as codified in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small-town Tennessee courtroom in 1925, set the stage for ongoing debates over the separation of Church and State in a democratic society—debates that continue to this day. Peter Goodchild used transcripts from the trial to create this intense docudrama. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (2006).

Recorded in Cambridge, Massachusetts before a live audience at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in April of 2007.

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The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Brendon Fox
Edward Asner as William Jennings Bryan
Bill Brochtrup as Ensemble
Kyle Colerider-Krugh as Ensemble
Matthew Patrick Davis as John Thomas Scopes
John de Lancie as Clarence Darrow
James Gleason as H.L. Mencken
Harry Groener as Dudley Field Malone
Jerry Hardin as John Raulston
Geoffrey Lower as Attorney General Stewart
Marnie Mosiman as Narrator
Kenneth Alan Williams as Arthur Garfield Hays
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9781580815581
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