ON STAGE NOW
Oct. 7, 14 & Nov. 4, 2024
Tickets:
Reserved Seating
Suggested Donations at the Door
$10-$30+
Showtimes:
Mondays 7:00pm
All play readings to be held at:
Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Gainesville
4225 NW 34th St.
Gainesville, FL 32605
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
by Sinclair Lewis
Adapted by Tony Taccone & Bennett S. Cohen
Directed by Lola Bond
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.