Chicago – There is no better time to take in a stage play that is based in U.S. history, depicting the battle between fact and religion. The old theater chestnut – first mounted in 1955 – is “Inherit the Wind,” now at the Goodman Theatre, completing it’s short run through October 20th. For tickets and more information, click Inherit.
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
“Inherit the Wind” is a fictionalized account of the infamous Scopes trial of the 1920s, which pitted the theory of teaching evolution against the Bible stories of creation. In the book of the play, the teacher on trial is Bertram Cates (Christopher Lleywyn Ramirez), a put-upon educator in the southern small town of Hillsboro, who is in love with Rachel (Tyler Meredith), the preacher’s daughter. Defending Bertram is Henry Drummond, while the prosecutor is Matthew Harrison Brady. As the showdown looms, Hillsboro becomes a trial-of-the-century circus, and a lighting rod...
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
“Inherit the Wind” is a fictionalized account of the infamous Scopes trial of the 1920s, which pitted the theory of teaching evolution against the Bible stories of creation. In the book of the play, the teacher on trial is Bertram Cates (Christopher Lleywyn Ramirez), a put-upon educator in the southern small town of Hillsboro, who is in love with Rachel (Tyler Meredith), the preacher’s daughter. Defending Bertram is Henry Drummond, while the prosecutor is Matthew Harrison Brady. As the showdown looms, Hillsboro becomes a trial-of-the-century circus, and a lighting rod...
- 10/12/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Lauded as the first great poet of Latin America, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz served as both an artistic and philosophical trailblazer in the most consequential of orders. A self-instructed scholar of Baroque thought, Sor Juana piloted a course of unprecedented intellect as well as feminist ideology during her brief years. What has rightfully garnered the scribe a nonpareil reverence was her audacity to posit such work in a time of a most restrictive piety.
Play Rating: 2.0/5.0
Barreling forth under the 17th Century Counter Reformation and the lambastic eye of the Inquisition, Sor Juana acquitted herself before academic salons and scrawled suggestive poetry during a period when women were primarily confined to whatever literary zest was to be found in scripture.
Malaya Rivera Drew in “Sins of Sor Juana”
Photo credit: Liz Lauren
Hers is undoubtedly a life after which narrators of biographical fiction can often only hunger.
Play Rating: 2.0/5.0
Barreling forth under the 17th Century Counter Reformation and the lambastic eye of the Inquisition, Sor Juana acquitted herself before academic salons and scrawled suggestive poetry during a period when women were primarily confined to whatever literary zest was to be found in scripture.
Malaya Rivera Drew in “Sins of Sor Juana”
Photo credit: Liz Lauren
Hers is undoubtedly a life after which narrators of biographical fiction can often only hunger.
- 7/4/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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