The Greater Reading Alliance of Community Theaters (GRACT) is taking Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” on the road around Berks County.

Mr. Lewis wrote his book in 1935, several years before Hitler’s takeover of Germany as a Dictator; this book was a cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy. It is the story of a family. The father, Doremus Jessup, is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from an imaginary town in Vermont. He witnesses the rise of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States, promising to return the country to greatness. He trusts the system will fix itself — until he sees firsthand the tyranny perpetrated on his family and others and ends up in a prison camp for expressing an opposing view to the administration. His life changes radically and he becomes someone else to survive, giving up much of his life and losing his family.

If you have any questions, please contact Pat Perfect at 610-223-2580