The dark satire by Will Cooper is set in a 1950s-style, 'Father Knows Best' environment where children carry guns and shooting deaths are no longer mourned
As if 2020 wasn’t grim enough, bringing with it the arrival of the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it was also a year that saw record gun-related deaths in America. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 45,000 people in the U.S. died in 2020 from injuries related to guns.
“We live already in this time that feels very strange,” said co-director Kate Rose Reynolds, “where we have all of these gun deaths and people are continuing to push for more gun rights, and all we tend to get out of these incidents is ‘thoughts and prayers.’ We feel incredibly emotionally distant. The idea of the play is people are handling guns from the time they were born.
“He’s taking this utopia that the NRA and large portions of the United States think is the end goal — everyone being armed — and asking, ‘If we do that, what is the cost? What does it mean?’ ” she said. Kate Rose Reynolds, left, and her mother, Rosina Reynolds hold their awards at the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle’s Craig Noel Awards for Excellence in Theatre on Feb. 27.
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