Inherit the Wind

So - to the reason we trekked to London for the day - to see "Inherit the Wind".

An old courtroom drama - and Al's favourite film of all time

The first time we had seen Kevin Spacey on stage - and he was magnificent as Henry Drummond - such a clever and physical performance.

We hadn't seen David Troughton live since his terrifying Caliban at the RSC back '93. His performance was equally brilliant- and his portrayal of a strong man broken has us thinking - when is he going to do Lear?
Sam Phillips played the teacher Cates - once we realised that it was Jamie from Hotel Trubble (on CBBC pretty much all the time) we had to resist huming the infernal theme tune!

There was a huge cast(45!) - and the set was amazing - it just went back forever!

And in old Trev Nunn style there was a lot of live music and singing

The best support was from Sam Cox as the Ranter Elijah and Mark Dexter as the nasty journalist EK Hornbeck.

It was just fabulous :)