It Can’t Happen Here
7 p.m. October 18, 2020
A livestream production of Sinclair Lewis’s play warning about the rise of an American fascist dictator
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October, 1936. Sinclair Lewis’s chilling stage adaptation of his best-selling novel It Can’t Happen Here was performed in theaters across the United States.
Its message has never been more urgent than now.
7 p.m. October 18, 2020. From Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. Join us.
It can’t happen here.
No matter what authoritarian designs this American president may possess.
It can’t happen here.
Even though institutional norms have been trampled and processes by which our nation is governed have been corrupted. Even though in America Black brothers and sisters still cannot breathe free.
It can’t happen here.
We can vote so it can’t happen here.
Join us October 18 in the heart of a battleground state as a scrappy band of professional and community actors livestream a Zoom adaptation of a play written when fascism was new.
Let’s affirm resistance to authoritarianism together.
It Can’t Happen Here tells the story of the fascist takeover of the United States by an American president. It was first staged by the Roosevelt administration’s Federal Theatre Project October 26, 1936. Fascism and right-wing violence were on the rise both at home and abroad, more than at any time in our nation’s history.
Until now.
Gather your quarantine circles, your book clubs, your civic organizations, your families and friends. Gather with members of a community committed to democratic ideals, social justice, and decency. Let’s unite to celebrate an American vision borne of our continued fight for the full realization of our founding ideals. Equality. Justice under the law. Freedom.
United, we will win.