Acting Un-American
Fermat's Last Theater Company
Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Fermat’s Last Theater opens its season with a timely and relevant staged reading culled from the 1938 testimony of Hallie Flanagan before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Flanagan was the director of the Federal Theatre Project, a Works Progress Administration program that provided work for scores of unemployed actors, writers and directors. The project’s politics ran afoul of anti-communist FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and the congressional hearings preceded the ones that famously ousted suspected communists from Hollywood.
press release: The readings will be at 7:30 PM, Thurs April 5 & Friday April 6 at the Arts + Literature Lab, 2021 Winnebago on Madison’s east side. Admission is free.