DVD
Creation
by Sarah Fletcher
10.02.2010
“Supposing nothing mattered. Not love, not trust, not faith, not honour. Only brute survival,” muses Charles Darwin in Creation. Darwin, acted by Paul Bettany, is all too conscious of the existential anxieties provoked by On the Origin of Species. 150 years following its publication, the topic of the film was even controversial enough that its [...]
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THEATRE
Inherit the Wind, Segal Centre
by Marc Seltzer
28.10.2009
The setting for Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s play Inherit the Wind, is a small conservative Tennessee town during the first half of the 20th century. When a local school teacher, Bertram Cates, is arrested for teaching Darwin’s evolutionary theory in contravention of state law, the pious Southern community becomes the unlikely locus of [...]
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