FREE SPECIAL EVENT - LIVE RADIO PLAY
Tuesday October 13, 5:00 PM on YouTube
Cottage Theatre is proud to partner with over 100 theatres across the country in support of Berkeley Rep's production of a new radio play of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, premiering on Tuesday, October 13 at 5:00 pm PDT via YouTube.
Written in 1935 during the rise of fascism in Europe, Lewis’s darkly satirical 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. Berkeley Rep unveiled a new stage adaptation of Lewis’s prescient novel in 2016; the presidential election roiled our nation one week later. Now, Berkeley Rep reprises that production with the same director and much of the original cast, this time as a radio play in four episodes, just in time for the 2020 presidential election. The intent for the project is to encourage dialogue and motivate citizens to exercise their civic power and vote.
Berkeley Rep’s former Artistic Director Tony Taccone and screenwriter Bennett S. Cohen reunite with the original director, two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Peterson, on the 2020 presentation. The trio previously collaborated on It Can’t Happen Here during its 2016 premiere at Berkeley Rep.
It Can’t Happen Here premieres on Berkeley Rep’s YouTube page, free of charge, on Tuesday, October 13 at 5:00 pm PDT. The production will be available to stream through November 8, 2020.
See complete cast and crew listing, as well as current list of theatre broadcast partners across the country.
Written in 1935 during the rise of fascism in Europe, Lewis’s darkly satirical 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. Berkeley Rep unveiled a new stage adaptation of Lewis’s prescient novel in 2016; the presidential election roiled our nation one week later. Now, Berkeley Rep reprises that production with the same director and much of the original cast, this time as a radio play in four episodes, just in time for the 2020 presidential election. The intent for the project is to encourage dialogue and motivate citizens to exercise their civic power and vote.
Berkeley Rep’s former Artistic Director Tony Taccone and screenwriter Bennett S. Cohen reunite with the original director, two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Peterson, on the 2020 presentation. The trio previously collaborated on It Can’t Happen Here during its 2016 premiere at Berkeley Rep.
It Can’t Happen Here premieres on Berkeley Rep’s YouTube page, free of charge, on Tuesday, October 13 at 5:00 pm PDT. The production will be available to stream through November 8, 2020.
See complete cast and crew listing, as well as current list of theatre broadcast partners across the country.