{"id":211,"date":"2006-03-01T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=211"},"modified":"2006-03-01T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T17:31:31","slug":"the-great-tennessee-monkey-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/03\/01\/the-great-tennessee-monkey-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_01_monkeytrial.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_01_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latw.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/www.latw.org\/images\/covers\/Monkey.jpg\" alt=\"Great Tennessee Monkey Trial\" \/><\/a><em>GUESTS: Actor and activist, Mike Farrell, Gordon Hunt, Director. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes defied Tennessee state law by teaching the scientific theory of evolution in his classroom. The legal battle that ensued, called the John Scopes trial, drew national attention to the debate between creationism and evolution. More than eighty years later, as legal battles continue over teaching evolution in schools, L.A. Theatre Works presents, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The script, written by Peter Goodchild, draws from actual transcripts of the John Scopes trial. The play is directed by Gordon Hunt and stars Ed Asner and Mike Farrell. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ends its 24 city national tour this week in Los Angeles. I had the opportunity earlier to speak with Gordon Hunt and Mike Farrell about the play. <\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial is: <\/em><br \/>\nWritten by Peter Goodchild<br \/>\nDirected by Gordon Hunt<br \/>\nStarring Ed Asner, Mike Farrell, Sharon Gless, Matthew Patrick Davis, James Gleason, Harry Groener, Jon Matthews, Jerry Hardin, Robert Pescovitz, Rob Nagle, and David Alan Novak.<br \/>\nProduced by Susan Albert Loewenberg<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s playing at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA  90049 on Wednesday, March 1 at 8 pm, Thursday, March 2 at 8 pm, Friday, March 3 at 8 pm, Saturday, March 4 at 3 pm, Sunday, March 5 at 2:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the L.A. Theatre Works Box Office at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latw.org\">www.latw.org<\/a> or call<br \/>\n(310) 827-0889. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $25.00 to $45.00. Call for student prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonali&#8217;s Subversive Thought for the Day: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Creationism was created. Evolution evolves.&#8221; &#8211; John Nicholson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUESTS: Actor and activist, Mike Farrell, Gordon Hunt, Director. In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes defied Tennessee state law by teaching the scientific theory of evolution in his classroom. The legal battle that ensued, called the John Scopes trial, drew national attention to the debate between creationism and evolution. More than eighty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}