It Can’t Happen Here – A Staged Reading
Schedule
Mon Oct 14 2024 at 06:30 pm
Location
123 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240 | Iowa City, IA
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A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty, It Can’t Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States 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 the system will fix itself—until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis’ 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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