(Can we talk about this?)
“The commentary is killing the conversation.” The Gun Show (Can we talk about this?) is a thoughtful one-man play excavating the playwright’s own complicated relationship to gun culture. While proponents on both sides talk past each other, making it seem like there is no one with conflicting feelings on the subject, The Gun Show (Can we talk about this?) explores the many nuanced considerations in that narrative dominated by political sound bytes and simple solutions.
Playwright E.M. Lewis shares five personal stories about her own varied experiences with guns, told by a single actor; Andrew William Smith returns to tackle the role after his previous work at Quantum in The Hard Problem and The River. Directed by Sheila McKenna, a favorite at Quantum who last directed J.T. Rogers’ Madagascar, The Gun Show bravely asks if we can really talk about this.
Runtime: 60 minutes with no intermission. Every performance will be followed by a 15-minute facilitated conversation.
SHOWTIMES
February 8 – 17: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Homewood
February 20 – 24: CCAC – Allegheny Campus, West Hall
February 27 – March 3: The Tull Family Theater
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The Intelligencer - WHEELING — Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theatre in Wheeling will host a one-night-only performance of Quantum Theatre’s rendition of EM Lewis’ timely and topical play “The Gun Show…
The Beaver County Times - SEWICKLEY — We need to talk about guns. That's the belief of EM Lewis, who hopes her one-man play, "The Gun Show (Can We Talk…
The Pittsburgh Tatler - While there are several guns conjured to the imagination in EM Lewis’s one-person play The Gun Show (Can we talk about this?), the most frightening moment of…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - “The Gun Show (Can we talk about this?)” is a plea in the form of a play. That’s not just a play on words. It is in…
‘Burgh Vivant - An actor (Andrew William Smith) speaks for a playwright (E. M. Lewis) and her relationship with guns, both positively and negatively, in E. M. Lewis’ “The Gun…
Quantum Theatre presents EM Lewis’ timely and topical play and plea for understanding. The writer hopes that the power of personal storytelling can unite people of differing experiences, backgrounds, and…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - On Jan. 7, citizens carrying weapons marched through Pittsburgh streets to demand their rights, and those opposed rallied alongside them. There were no incidents and no cause…
