When one character in this play meets a man named Elijah, he replies: "Why, I had no idea you were still around. I've read some of your stuff." One scene in this play ends with one character asking: "Why [...] have you moved so far away from me?", to
When one character in this play meets a man named Elijah, he replies: "Why, I had no idea you were still around. I've read some of your stuff." One scene in this play ends with one character asking: "Why [...] have you moved so far away from me?", to which another replies: "All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved awayÂ—by standing still." One character in this play gets himself named "temporary honorary Colonel" after he objects to that title being bestowed only on his opponent. One character in this play collapses and dies when (*) radio men turn off his microphone as he tries to give a speech to a disinterested crowd. His rival places a copy of the Bible and one other book together in his briefcase at this play's close. The cynical journalist E.F. Hornbeck is based on H.L. Mencken, and Henry Drummond is based on Clarence Darrow in, for 10 points, what play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee that fictionalizes the Scopes Monkey Trial?
When one character in this play meets a man named Elijah, he replies: "Why, I had no idea you were still around.
Inherit the Wind