Gun
"A KNIFE IN THE HEART/GUN opens with a mother's nightmare about the future of her newborn son. In a series of biting, fragmented scenes that move backwards and forwards in time, her nightmare comes true. The play was inspired by the escalating acts of violence in our country -- mass school shootings, assassinations, serial killings - carried out usually by young white men from middle-class families. Again and again, we ask why? Where does responsibility lie? What leads a loved child like Donald…
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- Full title :Gun / edited by Wesley Brown and Aimée K. Michel ; [written by Susan Yankowitz].
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"A KNIFE IN THE HEART/GUN opens with a mother's nightmare about the future of her newborn son. In a series of biting, fragmented scenes that move backwards and forwards in time, her nightmare comes true. The play was inspired by the escalating acts of violence in our country -- mass school shootings, assassinations, serial killings - carried out usually by young white men from middle-class families. Again and again, we ask why? Where does responsibility lie? What leads a loved child like Donald to commit a horrific, senseless murder? Like the killer's shocked mother and father, GUN careens from one perspective to another in a search for understanding"--About the play
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- Publication Date:2020.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Publishing
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 54 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781350068759, 1350068756, 9781350068742, 1350068748, 9781350068766, 1350068764
- DOI:10.5040/9781350068759.00000009
- oclc:on1244430330
- LC Classification:PS3575.A54
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