Fort Worth’s Stage West presents two plays, Church & State by Jason Odell Williams and On the Exhale by Martin Zimmerman, to explore the nuanced humanity behind gun violence.
Williams treats the subjects of faith, politics, and guns with respect. “There are no real villains in this play, except the person who committed the crime. It allows us to really consider options and to really consider the reality of the situation rather than an abstract concept of good and bad,” Burnett said.
The controversy results in a crisis of faith for Whitmore. “There are things he has always taken for granted that have major cracks,” Wood said. “And then tectonic plates just start shifting and we have no idea where there are going to settle or if they are going to settle.” Wood can relate to Whitmore and his devotion to his faith. “If he were sitting in front of me, I would want to encourage him,” Wood said. “There’s a difference between learning facts and words and having things explode in your heart and usually only when we’re desperate do things explode in our heart.”
The show is inspired by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Alone on a stage, Schultes plays a college professor whose life has been transformed by gun violence. “I think because I’m so passionate about the story, I find it so interesting and riveting, I love the character and all of her contradictions that it makes it easy because I know what the story is and I’m eager to share it, I can’t wait to have an audience,” Schultes said.
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