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Bar News - January 20, 2006 Concord Community Players Present Inherit the Wind
Jonathan Cohen, an attorney with the Sisti law firm, will play the role of John Scopes in the upcoming production of Inherit the Wind. Two other Bar members also have roles in the production. The play depicts the clash of two legal titans, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in a Dayton, Tenn. courtroom in 1925 as they dueled over the fate of a young teacher, John Scopes, who was facing charges for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution to his high school science classes. Throughout that long-ago summer, the media, the townspeople and much of the nation hung on the words and partook of the ideas, prejudices and passions of those two warring giants. The play continues to be timely as, more than 75 years later, the battle over the teaching of evolution continues. The very same political, scientific and religious issues raised in the famous “Monkey Trial” of 1925 are once again in the headlines. Tickets for Inherit the Wind can be purchased through the Auditorium box office on Prince Street, next to the Concord City Hall. The box office will be open Monday, Feb. 13 through Saturday, Feb. 18 from 4 to 8 p.m. You may visit the box office in person, or call 228-2793 during box office hours to reserve seats. Three New Hampshire attorneys will be members of the cast, including Jonathan Cohen, of the Sisti Law Offices in Chichester, who plays John Scopes, the defendant. Inherit the Wind is made possible, in part, by a generous donation from the law firm of Sulloway & Hollis of Concord.
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