←Recommendations of a Very Short Play About Children and Guns

Phew! This is dark and impactful. Sickles certainly drives home the point that something needs to be done about gun violence, and soon.

I always have said when it comes to plays about shootings and gun control that it would be a wonderful thing if plays like this didn't have to be written. However, the haunting images that Scott creates in the stage directions that begin this piece won't fail in snapping an audience to attention as they witness the tragedies that occur in a world plagued by gun violence. I remember thinking when I read that this piece borders on 'Theatre of Cruelty' as it forces the audience to face the harsh realities. Emotive, powerful and is sure to hold an audience!

Like many of us living in the land of god and guns, I've watched with increasing horror, anger and helplessness at the recent and ongoing slaughter of our school kids...babies, barely older than toddlers some of them. Scott reaches into the horror of kids waiting to be slaughtered with this piece which plays like a horror story...you know...DON'T GO IN THE BASEMENT! Except...except there is no basement and the bogey man is very real. This should be an ad on TV, not for gun control, but for banning the fucking things entirely!!! could be his finest

Yup. I mean, not just kids and guns, but gut checking your audience on what makes you clutch your pearls first. This short play should really make people think about their priorities.

Written in 2019, this is horrifying, but YES! As artists we are here to respond to the world we are living in, and this is quite a moving response that I enjoyed tremendously. I hope it will get done! With a program full of locations!

So painful. So horrifying. So normal.

This very short play does not let up. It is powered by anger and disgust, and audiences are going to be hit hard with visceral and intellectual reactions. It's a shock-and-awe campaign and it's brutal. And needed.

I'm angry that this play was written in 2019 and it's still bleedingly relevant in 2022.

SCOTT SICKLES is one of my favorite playwrights. In this short play, we are immersed into the timely topic of gun safety. “Location Location Location: A Very Short Play About Children and Guns” is a must-read. I, too, share the frustration over the killings of innocent children (and others as well). We need to come together and find workable solutions. Prayers and thoughts aren’t the only things we need.

A few short pages that speak volumes.

There was recently a child in this country who put another child's blood on herself and played dead so she could survive a day in her elementary school. I can only think of the main child from the movie "Come and See" as he went through the horrors of war against the Nazis. We have done next to nothing to prevent the deaths of our children. Scott Sickles puts that in our faces. We deserve it. Put this on if you can. Put it on until it can be called a period piece. Shove it in their faces.