Ambitious Play

A cast of 56 are at present doing their final rehearsals for Unity Theatre's forthcoming play, Inherit The Wind, a powerful and suspense-filled drama written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, on the famous Monkey Scopes court trial in America in 1925.

The play tells the story of an American school teacher who taught his class Darwin's theory of evolution, and became the centre-piece of a controversial "test-case" trial.

With its large cast, the play will be the biggest to be staged in Gisborne, and will open at the Opera House on 31st March.

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Patty White (Rachael Brown) is crossexamined by Kevin Cull (Brady, the crown prosecutor).

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Stage manager John Gordon (left) and producer Jack Roderick discuss the play

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Gillian Skyrme, Clinton Wilcox, and Joan and David Anderson play the parts of children.

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Peter Plummer (Cates, the prisoner), sits in the dock, with Derek Bird (Rev Brown) at left, and Michael Coles (Meeker, the bailiff).

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Bill Wilkie, as Hornbeck, the city reporter.

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Drummond, counsel for the defence, is played by Owen Poole.