Batighar staging ‘Monkey Trial’ today

Theatre troupe Batighar is going to stage ‘Monkey Trial’ today at the Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium of Bangladesh Mohila Samity at 6:30pm today. The show will be a part of the on-going ‘Teer-Kachkhela’ theatre festival, which started on March 8.

The play is the 15th production of Batighar and is based on Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s Inherit the Wind. Muktonil directed the play.

‘Monkey Trial’, a fictional courtroom drama, is based on 1925’s ‘Scopes Trial’ where a high school teacher was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act.

The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant.

The science teacher was later jailed for violating state law.