Description

Due to casting difficulties, we are substituting The Gun Show for Mother Courage and Her Children

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?"

Director's Note

I was raised in rural Ohio. I fired my first rifle when I was four. I got a gun rack for my tenth birthday. When I turned eighteen I got my first gun, my grandfather's .38 revolver. I was raised by hunters, and ex-military. I have seen what responsible gun ownership looks like. But it's not enough. Gun violence in America is an issue. One that isn't even being talked about. When I first read

The Gun Show it spoke to me immediately. Not only because of the similarities of playwright E.M. Lewis's upbringing and my own but because she captures my doubts, fears, and confusion about the topic of guns. It's a complicated issue but it is an issue. A problem that we, as a community, need to spend more time discussing.

Credits

Director
Lighting Design
Scenic Design
Producer
Actor (Playing Playwright)
Light & Sound Board Operator
Set Construction
Master Electrician
Shop Foreman
Technical Director
Poster & Program Art
House Manager Coordinator

Reviews

Review: One-woman play ‘The Gun Show’ is outstanding theater
- By Mike Cook, Las Cruces Bulletin

To me, there are few things in theater more courageous than an actor performing in a one-person show. When that actor is talented, has a good script and a good director, it is combination that makes for great theater.

That is what Black Box Theatre’s current production of “The Gun Show” is – jaw-dropping, gut-wrenching, outstanding theater.

Credit two people: Cassandra Galban, because her performance is brilliant, and director Joshua Taulbee, himself a talented actor who is directing for the first time, because he created a simple but evocative set and helped Galban find all the nuances –- the highs, the lows, the humor, the sorrow, the truth –- in playwright E.M. Lewis’ powerful script that explores gun ownership and gun violence from multiple perspectives.

There are no set changes or costumes changes in this one-hour, one-act play; only one entrance and one exit, one table, one chair, one cardboard box and one fearless, intelligent, appealing and gifted actor.

Galban connects with her audience the moment she walks on stage. She held our attention on opening night from lights up to lights down with an energy like a ball of fire that moved with her every step and filled every corner of the stage and the entire theater.

Go see this show. It will make you think and it will make you appreciate how truly great theater can be.

Remaining performances of “The Gun Show” are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25-26 and April 1-2; 2:30 p.m. Sundays, March 27 and April 3; and 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31.

Tickets are $15 regular admission, $12 for students and seniors over age 65. All seats for the Thursday, March 31 performance are $10.

Black Box Theatre is located at 430 N. Main St. Downtown.

For tickets, call 575-523-1223 and visit www.no-strings.org.

Seating

No seating plan has been posted.