Fermat's Last Theater Co. presents WE WILL NOT BE SILENT! Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Group on Friday, November 11, 2022 at 7:30pm, FREE. In 1942 and '43, a small group of students, and one professor, at the University of Munich, clandestinely produced and distributed leaflets calling for resistance to the Nazi regime and the war. They were caught and executed, but their message spread to other parts of wartime Germany and their martyrdom is honored around the world today as an example of defiance to fascism. This will be a dramatic reading with music and images, and post-show discussion.
We Will Not Be Silent
The name for Fermat’s Last Theater came about because one member of the company, upon re-reading The Merchant of Venice, had an idea for a production, but as with the 17th century mathematician, his conception was too large to include all the details in the margin of the of text.
We are a political theater—we stage works that explore issues of class, race and gender. Founded as a Shakespeare company in 2013, we have in recent years been exploring the genre of documentary theater—theater about real people, events and social movements.
We are a free theater. You will never be asked to buy a ticket to gain admittance to any of our work. We believe that being a political theater is inextricably linked with being a free theater. We pay our performers, and rely on a network of individual donors and city, state and national granting agencies to fund our shows. At the end of each performance, we do ask for free will donations for those able to contribute.
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