Black Hills Community Theatre is proud to announce its participation in the
Nationwide Reading of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence on April 20th at 5:30pm in the
Studio Theater of the Performing Arts Center of Rapid City. BHCT will join more than 50 other
communities around the United States to perform this year’s winning play selections and hold
conversations with the audience about how gun violence affects our community. Admission is
free!
#ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence calls on teens to confront gun violence by creating new
works of theatre that will spark critical conversations and meaningful action in communities
across the country. This year, eight plays were selected by a committee of award-winning
playwrights including Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph and Drama Critics Circle Award winner
Lydia R. Diamond, as well as Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was murdered in the 2018
school shooting in Parkland, FL. The plays, all written by high school students, address gun
violence through a variety of lenses and experiences.
“These eight plays not only shed light on the complexity of the issue of gun violence, but they
also reveal that gun violence is a symptom of much larger root issues, like racial and economic
inequality, that our country has failed to deal with,” says Michael Cotey, #ENOUGH’s Artistic
Producer. “Their perspectives are not only wise but bold, provocative, and vital to the urgent
moment we find ourselves in.”
This year’s Nationwide Reading is scheduled to mark the twenty-third anniversary of the mass
shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The cornerstone performance will be held
at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Patrons are advised that the subject matter includes discussions – but not graphic depictions – of
many forms of gun violence, including school shootings and officer-involved shootings.
For more information about #ENOUGH and the Nationwide Reading visit
https://www.enoughplays.com/reading.
