Show:
Characters
Act 1
Act 2
Act 2 Scene 2 / Act 3
Quotations
100
The teacher on trial.
Who is Bertram Cates.
100
The "father" of the human race, according to some.
What is a monkey.
100
What Drummond wishes to be referred to as.
What is Colonel.
100
Sentenced to pay a $100 fine.
Who is Cates.
100
"What’re yuh skeered of? You was a worm once!"
Who is Howard.
200
A student of Cates who believes that people are descended from worms and blobs of jelly.
Who is Howard.
200
Covering the trial for the Baltimore Herald.
Who is E.K. Hornbeck.
200
Drummond's problem with the "Read your Bible" banner.
What is there is not also a "Read your Darwin" banner.
200
Warns that you cannot say God or Hell on the radio.
Who is Harry Easterbrook.
200
"it takes a very smart fella to say “I don’t know the answer!”"
Who is Drummond.
300
Ran for president three times and lost.
Who is Matthew Harrison Brady.
300
This person claims to have no opinions on Evolution.
Who is the Storekeeper.
300
Reverend Brown calls for "his soul to writhe in anguish and damnation."
Who is Cates.
300
Pays Cates bond.
Who is Hornbeck.
300
"You see, I haven’t really thought very much. I was always afraid of what I might think—so it seemed safer not to think at all."
Who is Rachel.
400
The "odd agnostic."
Who is Henry Drummond.
400
Rachel tells Hornbeck that she finds all of the answers she needs here.
What is the Bible.
400
Brady warns this person that he might "destroy that which he hopes to save."
Who is Reverend Brown.
400
Decides that ideas are like children and must be born.
Who is Rachel.
400
"In a child’s power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted “Amens!”, “Holy, Holies!” and “Hosannahs!”"
Who is Drummond.
500
He can't read or write, but he sells Bibles.
Who is Elijah.
500
Claims to be as religious as anyone in town, though he rarely goes to church.
Who is Sillers.
500
Once a good friend of Drummond's.
Who is Brady.
500
Drummond's way of finding a loophole in Brady's case.
What is questioning stories from the Bible.
500
"Evolution is not on trial."
Who is the judge.