"The Great Monkey Trial" - performances on Wednesday and Thursday (Oct 19 and 20)

LA THEATRE WORKS presents...
"The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial"
- from the transcript of the Scopes Trial -
Sponsored by Great Performances at Vanderbilt series.
Wednesday & Thursday, October 19 & 20, 2005 - 8PM
Curb Event Center at Belmont University

An hour-long pre-performance forum, “The Scopes Trial: A Continuing
Controversy,” is scheduled at 6:45 on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Curb Event Center. Vanderbilt Professor of Law Lisa Bressman will moderate the panel, which will include Volney Gay, professor of religious studies and chair of the department and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and
Culture at Vanderbilt; Charles Israel, associate professor of history at
Auburn University and author of Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925; Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee; and David Williams, Vanderbilt professor of law and the university’s general counsel.