CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Hearing Each Other Over the Gun Fire

HowlRound Theatre Commons: When Pittsburgh’s Quantum Theatre programmed E.M. Lewis’s The Gun Show back in May 2018, it was with the intention of starting a conversation around gun violence in the area. This was before the mass shooting at the city’s Tree of Life Synagogue several months later, on 27 October, when eleven lives were taken. The community was shaken in a way that seemed immeasurable.

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