MASS MoCA

"A Gun Show" is a theatrical production by So Percussion and will be presented in MASS MoCA's Hunter Center. The ways in which Americans perceive these small machines seem to intersect with numerous serious issues that confront our society – race, economic inequality, public safety, constitutional rights, etc. They represent an everyday tool to some, but a health menace to others. What is it about our collective psyche that fastens so tightly to guns? "A Gun Show" is an exploration of these issues through music, text, and movement. The artists originally set to work on it as a way to process their emotions after the unfathomable school shootings in Newtown, CT.