ABSTRACT
Barbara Pitts McAdams, Tectonic Theater Project Company Member and co-author of the book Moment Work, describes her recent #HereToo Project, inspired by the 2018 March for Our Lives rallies across the US. She and collaborator Jimmy Mazie seized upon an opportunity to amplify the voices of lesser-known activists around the country in response to gun violence. The project gathers stories from youth activists and survivors of gun violence, and then archives and shares these stories with theatre-makers who, in turn, make their own devised #HereToo plays about gun culture as it impacts their own communities. Since many of the regional activists’ journeys began with the school walkouts after the MSD shooting, #HereToo productions utilize the events of the MFOL’s movement as a plot structure. This creates a customizable framework, allowing each iteration of #HereToo to include local content generated by participating students.
