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Masonic Theatre Night Presents: Inherit the Wind<\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday October 3, 2018<\/p>\n 7:30 PM<\/p>\n Lower Level of the Attleboro Masonic Building<\/p>\n 71 North Main St.<\/p>\n Attleboro, Ma<\/p>\n The Attleboro Community Theatre will be kicking off their 62nd season with Inherit the Wind. All Masons and their spouses\/guests are invited. There is no cost, the theatre group just asks for honest feedback.<\/p>\n Inherit the Wind takes place in 1925 in a small, bible-belt town in Tennessee. The audience finds out that the science teacher has been arrested for teaching Darwin\u2019s Theory of Evolution-which at the time, was against the law. A famous progressive lawyer from the North, Henry Drummond, travels to Tennessee to defend the science teacher. A fundamentalist politician, Matthew Brady, prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 \u201cScopes Monkey Trial\u201d with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts. A classic debate between fundamentalism vs. the freedom of thought, church vs. state, creationism vs. evolutionism. Drummond believes that when people aren\u2019t given the knowledge and the chance to ask questions \u2013 thinking is limited. Drummond argues that everyone has the right to think and ask questions- why else would God give us a brain and the ability to think? Brady believes that the only true written word, is the word of God. He believes that he is on the \u2018right\u2019 side and is defending the \u201cLiving Truth of the Scriptures.\u201d It\u2019s a stunning, passionate, edge of your seat debate between two old friends who couldn\u2019t be further apart.\u201d<\/p>\n