THE PAINTED HANDGUN:
AN EPIC, POST-MODERN-ISH PARANOIA DREAM

Jack Miller as Aaron Aankler and Oliver Rizzo as Kirby Whipple in the Emerson College production. Photo by Mae Rose Pendergast.

Jack Miller as Aaron Aankler and Oliver Rizzo as Kirby Whipple in the Emerson College production. Photo by Mae Rose Pendergast.

Semi-Finalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival

A gunshot shrieks across the shore.
Over the course of the Summer of 1963, three people become entangled in a possible conspiracy involving a children's television show, the Vietnam War, sleep-paralysis, and a long-forgotten Jacobean Revenge Play.

A piece of Epic Theatre done in loving-homage to the work of the post-modern fiction writers of the 1960's.

Running Time: 5 Hours

Development History:
Emerson College [2019] dir. Sam Lane

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