What happens when respected playwrights like Lauren Gunderson and David Henry Hwang team up with 1
st Stage to produce an online reading of seven plays written by teens from around the county focusing on gun violence and headlined by acclaimed local acting talents? On December 14, 2020, we found out. It was a profoundly moving and encouraging evening of 1
st Stage’s Zoom production of “#Enough-Plays to End Gun Violence.” That date was chosen because it marked the 8
th anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook.
Bravo to all the young playwrights for opening up their hearts and minds by reminding us about gun violence in this country.
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By Dr Parkie Mbozi
In boxing they say you need a technical knock out to bring down a champion. I will piggyback on this analogy and argue that in politics, you need a conglomerate of movements and an all-inclusive well-oiled team, which is holding the centre, to bring down the party in power.
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden had connections to, and endorsement from, numerous movements. However, Biden’s election as the 46
th President of the United States of America was to a large extent due to having more effective connection with, and use of, a movement of movements. His win offers to our local political parties a lesson about the rewards of putting together a coalition of movements to unseat the party in power and effect regime change. Short of a coalition of movements, the task is a lot harder. I will triangulate the Biden example with some local examples of the triumph of movements.