The Gun Show

Off-Leash Art Box, Minneapolis

March 15 – March 24, 2019

From a farming community in rural Oregon to the big cities of Los Angeles and New York, playwright EM Lewis takes aim at her own complicated relationship with firearms in The Gun Show. Join us for a unique perspective and true stories about America’s most dangerous pastime. Poignant yet comedic, this surprisingly-intimate and brutally honest show leans neither right nor left and jumps into the middle of the debate and asks: “Can we have a conversation about this?”

With firearms-related suicides spiking across the country, partisan gridlock largely blocks new policies that might reverse the trend. The diverging cultures of rural and urban America foster starkly different attitudes towards guns, further complicating efforts to find common ground. Against this backdrop, EM Lewis’ deeply personal stories give a human voice to both sides of a complicated issue.