We Will Not Be Silent! Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

press release: Fermat's Last Theater Co. presents WE WILL NOT BE SILENT! Sophie Scholl and the White Rose on Friday, November 11, 2022 at 7:00pm at Arts + Literature Laboratory. Free admission, limited seating. 

On Feb. 18, 1943, during the height of World War II, two German college students at the University of Munich entered one of the main campus buildings, walked to the top of a staircase and tossed a stack of leaflets over the railing and down into the crowded atrium. The leaflet, the sixth in a series of underground publications from a group calling itself the White Rose, exhorted fellow students to rise up against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi war machine.

Those students were Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, left and center in the photo below, with fellow White Rose member Christoph Probst. That action was seen by the building's janitor, a faithful Nazi Party member, and led to their immediate arrest and trial a mere four days later. The three other members of the group were also soon arrested.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT! Sophie Scholl and the White Rose will be our dramatic reading that tells their story and asks some difficult questions about resistance to oppressive regimes, a story that is being enacted on the streets of Tehran today.

This, and all of Fermat's performances, are free. Join us Friday, November 11 at 7:30 PM at ArtLitLab, 111 S. Livingston for this gripping, tragic and inspiring story.