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107 Main Street
Dayton TN 37321-1320

Grant Amount: $6,000

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Front Page News

The Scopes Festival began 27 years ago. In 2014, MainStreet Dayton and Cumberland County Playhouse partnered to create Front Page News, a historically accurate play about the famous 1925 Scopes Evolution Trial. This grant provided funding for technical support and equipment that will expand the festival’s programming and the Front Page News production. The project is part of an ongoing effort to repurpose the Rhea County Courthouse as an Arts and History Center.

A stage scene shows three men in period costumes, two standing and one sitting at a wooden table, with additional actors seated in the background. Large projected black-and-white images appear on the wall behind them.

A man in a suit stands and points while speaking in front of a panel of seated men at a long wooden table. Behind him, a projection displays a photograph of another man, and an American flag is visible at the right side of the image.

A man in a suit stands and gestures at a wooden railing in a courtroom setting, with other people seated or standing. Black-and-white portraits are projected on the wall behind him.

Two men stand and talk on a stage; one wears a white suit and bow tie, the other wears suspenders over a white shirt. A large black-and-white portrait is projected behind them. An American flag is visible to the right.