Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective: It Can’t Happen Here – Live Staged Reading

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Sat, Aug 15, 2020
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
2020-08-15T19:30:00-04:00
2020-08-15T21:30:00-04:00
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Image may contain: 1 person, text that says 'AUGUST 14 & 15, 2020 LIVE STAGED READING PAY WHAT YOU WILL DIRECTED BY MARY LANDINGHAM DILLON SDIFFERENT STROKES! ERFOMIGARTSCOLLECTIVE HAPPEN CAN'T HERE COHEN BY SINCLAIR LEWIS ADAPTED BY TONY TACCONE & BENNETT CAUTIONARY DARK SATIRE ABOUT THE FRAGILITY OF DEMOCRACY AND THE THREAT FASCISM DPS'

Written by Sinclair Lewis
Adapted by Tony Taccone & Bennett S. Cohen
Directed by Mary Landingham Dillon
A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and the threat of fascism, It Can’t Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who secures the US presidency by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president’s tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts that the system will fix itself–until he ends up in a prison camp. Sicnlair Lewis’s eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom, and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall.

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