Inherit The Wind
by Robert Edwin Lee, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Broadway West End
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Highlights

120 mins 1920s Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Role(s) for Senior Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes American Adaptation

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Tony Award

Winner! Three 1956 Tony Awards Nominee: Two 1996 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play Nominee: Four 2007 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play Nominee: Three 2007 Drama Desk Awards

Synopsis

THE STORY: The critics talk about the play: Magnificently written...one of the most exciting dramas of the last decade.

--NY News.

A tidal wave of a drama...More than any other play in memory based on history and aiming at a contemporary parallel, IN

Themes General

Press Reviews

"Cracking entertainment and proof that few things work as effectively in theatre as a good old-fashioned courtroom drama."

— The Telegraph

"A masterpiece. This is the test: to see a play once, twice, three times. And each time to leave the theatre as deeply moved, as enlightened, as lifted up, as magnificently entertained. And as convinced that it is one of the truly great American dramas of this century."

— Scripps-Howard

Characters

Character
RACHEL BROWN
MEEKER
BERTRAM CATES
MR. GOODFELLOW
MRS. KREBS
REV. JEREMIAH BROWN
CORKIN
BOLLINGER
PLATT
MR. BANNISTER
MELINDA
HOWARD
MRS. LOOMIS
HOT DOG MAN
MRS. MCLAIN
MRS. BLAIR
ELIJAH
E.K. HORNBECK
HURDY GURDY MAN
TIMMY
MAYOR
MATTHEW HARRISON BRADY
MRS. BRADY
TOM DAVENPORT
HENRY DRUMMOND
+ 6 more characters

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Publication

Year 2000
Binding Paperback
Edition illustrated edition
Pages 72
Place New York, NY
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822205708
ISBN-10 082220570X
LCCN 2001272284
LCC PS3523.A934 I6 2000
DCC 812/.54

Inherit The Wind is a American adaptation play written by Robert Edwin Lee and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, NY (2000).

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