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Gun Show, The

  • E.M. Lewis
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573707384

From a farming community in rural Oregon to the big cities of Los Angeles and New York, playwright E.M. Lewis takes aim at her own relationship with firearms in The Gun Show

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
In The Gun Show, award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis tells the story of America's relationship with guns through the prism of her own personal experiences. From a farming community in rural Oregon to the big cities of Los Angeles and New York, an actor shares Ms. Lewis's unique perspective and true stories about America's most dangerous pastime as if they were his or her own, with brutal honesty and poignant humor. 

Leaning neither right nor left, The Gun Show jumps into the middle of the gun control debate and asks, "Can we have a conversation about this?"

REVIEWS:

"Human, bold, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always honest."

 New City

"The drama's life-changing moments evoke a here-and-now immediacy, not easily forgotten."

 LA Weekly

"Compact yet high-caliber theatrical, a short one-hour blast of personal recollection, rhetoric and genuinely conflicted questioning."

 Oregon Arts Watch

  • Casting: 2M or F
  • Casting Notes: Can be cast with two actors of any gender.

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In The Gun Show, award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis tells the story of America's relationship with guns through the prism of her own personal experiences. From a farming community in rural Oregon to the big cities of Los Angeles and New York, an actor shares Ms. Lewis's unique perspective and true stories about America's most dangerous pastime as if they were his or her own, with brutal honesty and poignant humor. 

Leaning neither right nor left, The Gun Show jumps into the middle of the gun control debate and asks, "Can we have a conversation about this?"

$24.95