←Recommendations of SHELTER IN PLACE

  • Asher Wyndham: SHELTER IN PLACE by Rachael Carnes
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    A disturbing, haunting short play, one of the best gun protest plays I've read. In only six-pages, fragmented voices from different points in time, different experiences of gun violence in American education are brought together. A work that should be performed in cities across the U.S., on stage with community speakers, students, parents, all fighting for change and for justice for all those children lost to mass shootings.

    A disturbing, haunting short play, one of the best gun protest plays I've read. In only six-pages, fragmented voices from different points in time, different experiences of gun violence in American education are brought together. A work that should be performed in cities across the U.S., on stage with community speakers, students, parents, all fighting for change and for justice for all those children lost to mass shootings.

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  • Francis RTM Boyle: SHELTER IN PLACE by Rachael Carnes
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    Horrifying. Disturbing. A six page peek into the hell we've made.

    Horrifying. Disturbing. A six page peek into the hell we've made.

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  • Jessie Salsbury: SHELTER IN PLACE by Rachael Carnes
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    What a powerful short play. Poetic with bits of dialogue from a variety of characters, we know them all, who have been affected by school shootings. The language, the quotes, the explanations of what an AR-15 does to a body, all are powerful and this play is perfect as a protest piece against the senseless gun violence. The ending Narrator speech I read multiple times. It is so rich, breaking down the potential shooter motivations in poetic fragment structure. This writer is an expert in expression. Heartrendingly well crafted.

    What a powerful short play. Poetic with bits of dialogue from a variety of characters, we know them all, who have been affected by school shootings. The language, the quotes, the explanations of what an AR-15 does to a body, all are powerful and this play is perfect as a protest piece against the senseless gun violence. The ending Narrator speech I read multiple times. It is so rich, breaking down the potential shooter motivations in poetic fragment structure. This writer is an expert in expression. Heartrendingly well crafted.

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  • Ricardo Soltero-Brown: SHELTER IN PLACE by Rachael Carnes
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    Carnes manifests a reflection that is at once all too clinical, crippling, heart wrenching, and - also -mobilizing. The breakdown of the rifle here is set against the breakdown of modern education and we are tasked with the question of which requires more focus, because the fact is the two are becoming - or, it could be argued, are currently - inseparable, bonded by blood. This is an urgent warning and a devastating rumination on what's worth protecting, what's worth allowing our children easier access to.

    Carnes manifests a reflection that is at once all too clinical, crippling, heart wrenching, and - also -mobilizing. The breakdown of the rifle here is set against the breakdown of modern education and we are tasked with the question of which requires more focus, because the fact is the two are becoming - or, it could be argued, are currently - inseparable, bonded by blood. This is an urgent warning and a devastating rumination on what's worth protecting, what's worth allowing our children easier access to.

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