"Inherit the Wind" Breezes into Oak Park
Oak Park Festival Theatre's summer season kicks off with the production of an American classic.
Director Steve Pickering furrows his brow, leans in close to talk. His gaze grows more intense as he expounds on the source material and setting for Inherit the Wind, the first of two Oak Park Festival Theatre summer productions. "This is a play with a lot of rust on it," he said. "But it's about the freedom of individual thought and that excited me." Pickering is at the helm of the play, which fictionally recreates the Scopes "monkey" trial of 1925, where two famed attorneys collided in a Dayton, Tenn. courtroom over the legality of high school teacher John Scopes teaching evolution in a public school. Playing the role of attorney Matthew Harrison Brady is Aaron Christensen, a Chicago actor who's credits include roles at Chicago's …
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