In this celebrated solo show by E.M. Lewis, Peter Townley plays a surprising character who lays bare Americans’ complicated, contradictory feelings about guns, with a unique perspective that upends common harangues from the opposite poles of the political spectrum.
Telling five true stories that are by turns humorous, touching, harrowing, and heartbreaking, The Gun Show makes audiences realize there are no easy answers in the gun debate. “We have a problem with guns in America,” Lewis writes. “The problem is, we really, really like them.” In stories ranging from a nostalgic look at growing up in rural Oregon — where having a gun around the house is as normal as anything and learning to shoot is a familiar rite of passage — to life-changing episodes of gun violence, Lewis offers an unflinching look down the barrel at the America we live in today. The show received rave reviews and played extended runs in its two previous productions, in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Sep 3–Oct 10
Thu–Sat 8pm
Sep 3 and Sep 4 are preview nights with Pay-What-You-Wish at the door and $10 online
Advance tickets: $20 ($15 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Door tickets: $25 ($20 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Directed by Melissa Hillman
Stage Management by Diana Goy
Featuring Peter Townley
E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and teacher of playwriting. She was a finalist for the 2014 Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship. She received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2010-2011, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission in 2012. She won the ATCA/Steinberg Award for her play “Song of Extinction,” which also received the Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. She won the Primus Prize for her play “Heads.” Her work has been produced around the world, and is published by Samuel French. For more information: emlewisplaywright.com
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Telling five true stories that are by turns humorous, touching, harrowing, and heartbreaking, The Gun Show makes audiences realize there are no easy answers in the gun debate. “We have a problem with guns in America,” Lewis writes. “The problem is, we really, really like them.” In stories ranging from a nostalgic look at growing up in rural Oregon — where having a gun around the house is as normal as anything and learning to shoot is a familiar rite of passage — to life-changing episodes of gun violence, Lewis offers an unflinching look down the barrel at the America we live in today. The show received rave reviews and played extended runs in its two previous productions, in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Sep 3–Oct 10
Thu–Sat 8pm
Sep 3 and Sep 4 are preview nights with Pay-What-You-Wish at the door and $10 online
Advance tickets: $20 ($15 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Door tickets: $25 ($20 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Directed by Melissa Hillman
Stage Management by Diana Goy
Featuring Peter Townley
E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and teacher of playwriting. She was a finalist for the 2014 Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship. She received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2010-2011, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission in 2012. She won the ATCA/Steinberg Award for her play “Song of Extinction,” which also received the Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. She won the Primus Prize for her play “Heads.” Her work has been produced around the world, and is published by Samuel French. For more information: emlewisplaywright.com
In this celebrated solo show by E.M. Lewis, Peter Townley plays a surprising character who lays bare Americans’ complicated, contradictory feelings about guns, with a unique perspective that upends common harangues from the opposite poles of the political spectrum.
Telling five true stories that are by turns humorous, touching, harrowing, and heartbreaking, The Gun Show makes audiences realize there are no easy answers in the gun debate. “We have a problem with guns in America,” Lewis writes. “The problem is, we really, really like them.” In stories ranging from a nostalgic look at growing up in rural Oregon — where having a gun around the house is as normal as anything and learning to shoot is a familiar rite of passage — to life-changing episodes of gun violence, Lewis offers an unflinching look down the barrel at the America we live in today. The show received rave reviews and played extended runs in its two previous productions, in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Sep 3–Oct 10
Thu–Sat 8pm
Sep 3 and Sep 4 are preview nights with Pay-What-You-Wish at the door and $10 online
Advance tickets: $20 ($15 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Door tickets: $25 ($20 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Directed by Melissa Hillman
Stage Management by Diana Goy
Featuring Peter Townley
E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and teacher of playwriting. She was a finalist for the 2014 Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship. She received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2010-2011, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission in 2012. She won the ATCA/Steinberg Award for her play “Song of Extinction,” which also received the Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. She won the Primus Prize for her play “Heads.” Her work has been produced around the world, and is published by Samuel French. For more information: emlewisplaywright.com
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Telling five true stories that are by turns humorous, touching, harrowing, and heartbreaking, The Gun Show makes audiences realize there are no easy answers in the gun debate. “We have a problem with guns in America,” Lewis writes. “The problem is, we really, really like them.” In stories ranging from a nostalgic look at growing up in rural Oregon — where having a gun around the house is as normal as anything and learning to shoot is a familiar rite of passage — to life-changing episodes of gun violence, Lewis offers an unflinching look down the barrel at the America we live in today. The show received rave reviews and played extended runs in its two previous productions, in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Sep 3–Oct 10
Thu–Sat 8pm
Sep 3 and Sep 4 are preview nights with Pay-What-You-Wish at the door and $10 online
Advance tickets: $20 ($15 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Door tickets: $25 ($20 students, seniors, TBA, military)
Directed by Melissa Hillman
Stage Management by Diana Goy
Featuring Peter Townley
E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and teacher of playwriting. She was a finalist for the 2014 Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship. She received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2010-2011, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission in 2012. She won the ATCA/Steinberg Award for her play “Song of Extinction,” which also received the Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. She won the Primus Prize for her play “Heads.” Her work has been produced around the world, and is published by Samuel French. For more information: emlewisplaywright.com
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1834 Euclid Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709
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