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There's biting and then there's BITING satire. This is absolutely tearing into gun culture in America. There are some very good dark laughs as well.

It astonishes me to think that there are people in this world to whom this play would represent a documentary, and not a dark AF satire on the 2nd Amendment zombies who believe in their hearts that the only bad guns are the unfired ones. Brian Cern actually hits the bullseye here with his fictional family more interested in making daughter a martyr (And my God, is that not the saddest thing you've ever heard?) in order to preserve their God-given right to Make America Great Again over her dead body. Scathing and necessary at the same time.

A pitch black satire in the vein of A Modest Proposal. Sometimes humor can speak truth with far greater power than drama, and this is one of those cases.

Brian Cern crafts an image of the perfect American family, delivering a biting satire on gun culture and how to 'Make America Great'. This piece demands attention for its incisive commentary on society.

Brian Cern sets up a Norman Rockwell image of the perfect American family and BAM! Brilliant, biting satire. Speaks, no screams, volumes about American gun culture. Listen up and produce this!

“Thoughts and prayers” following a school shooting is given new meaning. Brian Cern’s satire on gun violence takes a dark turn in a hurry and makes its point decisively. Not a wasted word here.

Beaver Cleaver meets the NRA. Cern's brisk, biting dark-dark comedy satirizes the horrors of school shootings. Daughter, wearing her favorite pink dress, makes the ultimate patriotic sacrifice, and her family rejoices at the news. A powerful absurdist piece that invites intriguing staging possibilities.

Pitch perfect, black as night, quick satire. What it's satirizing, of course, makes many feel like they're screaming into a hurricane in terms of trying to make any real change. You feel that in this piece, I think. Sharp and biting work here by Cern.