Manuel Oliver, who lost his son, Joaquin, in the 2018 school shooting, is raising awareness and building on his `art activismī with Guac: My Son, My HeroThere is a single, powerful moment in Manuel Oliverīs stage show that captures the purpose of a work he never wanted to write. An alarm clock rings, signalling that 15 minutes have passed since the last life was lost to gun violence in America, and that another person is about to die. He hurls the clock across the set and it explodes into a mass of springs and metal, filling the theatre with a haunting silence. Oliverīs anger is directed as much at the grim statistic that 100 people die every day in the US from gunshot wounds as at the death of his own teenage son, Joaquin, in the Parkland high school shooting massacre of 2018. Continue reading...
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