THEATER

Dan Froot & Company’s

Arms Around America

Friday, March 21, 7:30pm
Saturday, March 22, 2:00pm & 7:30pm

The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

“Gut-wrenching performances.” — New York Times

Arms Around America is a community-based theater project investigating how Americans experience fear, power, identity, loss, and love through our relationships with guns. The show is staged as a live radio-theater broadcast. Four actors voice dozens of characters in a constellation of six short plays based on real families whose lives have been shaped by guns. They are accompanied by a sound effects artist (Dan Froot) and Julio Montero’s driving score.

The plays focus not on guns themselves, or even their political dimensions, but on our relationships with guns and with each other. Members of our local community will host the evening from their seats at an on-stage kitchen table. After the performance, the kitchen table participants will discuss the relevance of the plays to themselves and our communities.

This presentation of Arms Around America was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from the Mellon Foundation and additional support from the Doris Duke Foundation.

This programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.