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Starts at 7:00pm

This event is FREE

No experience necessary

Fun and informal: You can sit and listen or participate as much as you want

We will read “It Can’t Happen Here” led by Colby Pilkey. More information about the play and ACT play reads below.

About the Play

It Can’t Happen Here is a cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty. It 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.

This new adaptation of Lewis’ novel, It Can’t Happen Here, was penned by Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen. It premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in September 2016.

About Table Reads

The Play Selection Committee of Athens Community Theatre hosts several opportunities each season to read plays for fun. Participation in a table read is a great way to “dip a toe in” to see what it’s like to work with ACT. The play is read in a casual setting: you can let us know if you want to participate or you just want to listen in. And you can change your mind at any time.