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Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! Local Grassroots Talkback

  • The Actors’ Gang 9070 Venice Boulevard Culver City, CA, 90232 United States (map)

Join The Actors’ Gang for a Local Grassroots Talkback following the 8PM performance of Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! on Friday, May 27th performance of Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! 

Dario Fo’s wildly funny play asks why, in a world of bailed-out banks and overpriced prescription drugs, theft is only a crime when it’s committed by those truly in need. The talkback will light your activist fire as we look at how this issue and other issues in the play affect all of us here in LA. David Levitus (LA Forward), Ashley Gonzales (LAANE), and Theo Henderson (We the Unhoused) will share their experiences fighting for justice and equality for all Angelenos.

Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! by Dario Fo

Hungry and fed up by rising prices and stagnant wages, humble housewife, Antonia, joins a revolt of a few hundred women at the local supermarket. Determined to live with dignity and rejecting an austerity diet of dog food and birdseed, the women’s protest escalates and looting ensues. As police search door to door, Antonia and her friend Margherita frantically try to hide their ‘liberated’ goods from their husbands and the police. Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! is a wildly funny satirical farce written by Nobel Laureate Dario Fo that questions why, in a world of bailed-out banks and overpriced prescription drugs, theft is only a crime when it is committed by those truly in need.

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