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Full-Length Play, Drama / 1 any gender (adult)
E.M. Lewis
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 relationship with firearms in “The Gun Show.”
A solo version of the play is also available for licensing.
An actor shares Ms. Lewis’s unique perspective and true stories about America’s most dangerous pastime as if they were his 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?”
Can be cast with two actors of any gender.
“Human, bold, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always honest.” – New City
“The drama’s life-changing moments evoke a here-and-now immediacy, not easily forgotten.” – LA Weekly
“Compact yet high-caliber theatrical, a short one-hour blast of personal recollection, rhetoric and genuinely conflicted questioning.” – Oregon Arts Watch
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
In Conversation with… Gun Violenceby Ally Varitek26 May 2026
E.M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world and is published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals.
Lewis received the Steinberg Award for both How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction, and the Primus ...