Saturday, November 02, 2024 - 7 p.m.
Paul Creative Arts Center Johnson Theatre
<p>A theatrical exploration of the New York Times best-selling book by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. The play, devised by UNH students, will delve into the book’s examination of how we have arrived at this moment in our democracy. As stated in the Wall Street Journal’s review; “The authors argue, with good evidence, that democracies aren’t destroyed because of the impulses of a single man; they are, instead, degraded in the course of a partisan tit for tat dynamic that degrades norms over time until one side sees an opening to deliver the death blow.” The result of more than twenty years of studying the breakdown of democracies from the 1930s to the present, the book’s authors have provided an artistic springboard to understand how democracies die, and how ours can not only be saved, but thrive.</p><p>The creation of this play was supported in part by a generous grant from the Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project (RGSCP).202f The play will be part of a larger program, How Democracies Die/Thrive, that will feature speakers and panels leading up to the production.</p><p>How Democracies Die is a work of nonfiction by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt202f(Crown, 2018).</p>
