British Theatre Guide
Broadway World
Is/Ought
Broadway Baby
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE
4-26 AUGUST 2017
Mon-Sat 7:40pm
at SpaceTriplex (V38)
"AN OUTSTANDING MASTERCLASS IN THEATRICAL STORYTELLING"
Broadway Baby
"YOU WILL BE GREATLY MOVED"
British Theatre Guide
"GO SEE IT"
Is/Ought
"HIGH-CALIBER THEATRE"
Oregon ArtsWatch
"UNNERVING"
Portland Mercury
"HEARTBREAKING"
DC Metro
CRITIC'S PICK
Portland Monthly Magazine
PORTLAND'S BEST ACTOR:
VIN SHAMBRY (2016)
Willamette Week
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In an America growing increasingly divided along political and ideological lines, The Gun Show steps into the center of a deadly and divisive issue. Playwright E.M. Lewis sits with the audience while Performer Vin Shambry shares her stories – just five gun stories in a country full of gun stories. Her words. His voice. Our story.
She grew up in rural Oregon, where everyone has guns. She learned to shoot on a date. She worked at Jackson’s Bookstore during an armed robbery, and once encountered a threatening cop in New York. And then there’s the fifth story: the one that doesn’t let go, the story that triggered this show. The Gun Show takes aim at America’s most dangerous past-time with brutal honesty and poignant humor. Leaning neither right nor left, it jumps into the middle of the gun control debate and asks: Can we have this conversation? |
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