"Inherit the Wind" is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which resulted in John T. Scopes' conviction for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee state law. An engrossing courtroom drama, the play is described as a “A stirring masterpiece…The portrait it draws of an explosive episode in American culture remains as fresh today as it ever was.”