Stand Down the March

Naomi Brodkin’s new play STAND DOWN THE MARCH explores the notion of truth and how far one must go to fight for it. Liv is a college senior looking for her “thing.” She stumbles into a cause when she learns her professor is a Holocaust denier planning a march on campus. 

The play premieres at the Hollywood Fringe Festival next month, with previews starting June 1st.

The play was commissioned by Next Theatre of Evanston in 2011 and went on to win the “New Voices: Emerging Talent” award from the Chicago Jewish Historical Society in 2012. Six years later, it is — unfortunately — more timely now than when it was written. 

In April, the New York Times reported the results of a troubling survey that found many Americans lack basic facts about the Holocaust. The study found 31% of Americans think less than two million Jews were killed. It also found that 66% of millennials cannot say what Auschwitz was, and more than half of the country wrongly thinks Hitler came to power by force.