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	LA Theatre works is presenting The Great Tennesse Monkey 
Trial and may be coming close to you. This from the National Center 
for Science Education:

THE GREAT TENNESSEE MONKEY TRIAL ON TOUR

L.A. Theatre Works's drama The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, based on the
original transcripts from the Scopes trial, is now on a twenty-three city
tour, playing at major universities, colleges, and civic performing arts
centers across the country.  With a script by Peter Goodchild, the play was
originally broadcast by LATW in 1992; the current production, directed by
Gordon Hunt, commemorates the eightieth anniversary of the Scopes trial.

Reviewing the play in the Wall Street Journal (October 1, 2005), the critic
Terry Teachout (who recently wrote a biography of H. L. Mencken, The
Skeptic (HarperCollins, 2002)) commented, "the trial itself is heard as it
happened, and is all the more dramatic for being true. ... while I doubt
it'll change many minds in Harrisburg [where the trial in Kitzmiller v.
Dover is being conducted], or anywhere else, it still makes for a
thought-provoking show."

Varying from locale to locale, the cast will include such actors as Edward
Asner, Tom Bosley, Mike Farrell, James Cromwell, Marsha Mason, Richard
Dreyfuss, Eric Stoltz, Sharon Gless, Alfred Molina, Michael Learned, and
John de Lancie.  At each stop, LATW's producing director told The New York
Times (October 12, 2005), the local National Public Radio affiliate will
record and broadcast the performance and any locally arranged discussion.

For information on the play from LATW, visit:
http://www.latw.org/about/article.aspx?index=3

For Teachout's review (PDF), visit:
http://www.latw.org/downloads/Sightings-TerryTeachout.pdf

Martin


-- 
Martin Weiss, Ph.D
Vice President, Science
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111 th Street
Corona, New York 11368
718 699 0005 x 356

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