Where Adam Stood is adapted from Father and Son, a masterful 1907 autobiography by the esteemed British literary critic, Edmund Gosse. The eponymous father was Philip Gosse, a naturalist of some repute and a fundamentalist Christian. Potter concentrates on how Gosse père reconciles his literal belief in the Old Testament with the new theories of Charles Darwin, a theory he vehemently rejected as a devout Plymouth Brother. Where Adam Stood captures with brilliant economy a sense of the scientific world on the edge of a radical and frightening change. But this drama is also very much about the son, Edmund, and how he comes to terms with ideas forbidden by his elders, leading to a sexual attack by a deranged woman, an episode dramatically heightened by Potter. Survival of the fittest seems to be the operating phrase in this story of filial confusion.