Location: Old Vic Theatre Type of production: Play Opened: 18 September 2009

Booking until: 20 December 2009

Running time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Author/Playwright: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee

Director: Trevor Nunn

Cast: Kevin Spacey

Synopsis:

A grippingly relevant drama based on the 1925 Scopes Monkey trial. A schoolteacher is arrested for teaching his high school students Darwin’s evolution theory. In a highly religious town this is strictly prohibited by law and two legal Titans confront each other in a  community where freedom of thought is put on trial.