central question they asked each
night was, “Do you have a gun
story you’d like to share tonight?”
“It was extraordinary the number of stories that we heard,
what kind of stories we heard,
and, most excitingly, how well
people listened to each other,”
she recalled. “It gave me some
hope because the polarization
of our country right now bothers
me. The fact that we aren’t talking civilly with each other and in
a problem solving way with each
other is troublesome. I think
we’re capable of it. Hopefully
I’ve done such a job of falling in
between both sides that nobody
who’s very left or very right will
think I’m right in my deductions.
I don’t have many deductions,
but I try to explore the issue as
thoroughly and as personally as I
can with this play.”
The Gun Show is being presented at Passage Theatre in Trenton
from January 22 through February 8. Lewis discovered Passage
while living in New Jersey after
receiving the 2010-2011 Hodder
Fellowship from Princeton University. It’s an award that affords
writers the opportunity to spend
a year entirely at their craft while
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