'Inherit the Wind' review: still fresh
Photo credit: Tom Kochie | Daniel Becker, right, as Henry Drummond, confronts Alan Stewart, left, as Matthew Harrison Brady, with Stephan Sheck, second from left, and Richard Gardini in a scene from "Inherit the Wind," through Oct. 28, 2012, at Center Stage, Southampton.
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'Inherit the Wind' show
"He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart."
-- Proverbs 11:29
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, authors of "Inherit the Wind," said their 1955 play -- dramatizing the Scopes "Monkey" trial three decades earlier -- was intended as commentary on the then-current "Commie" witch hunts fomented by Sen. Joseph McCarthy....
