In the campaign to end gun violence, many of the most powerful advocates have been youths: the ones for whom school is no longer a safe haven of learning, or whose childhoods ended early, all because of the ongoing threat of shootings.
Now, on Election Day eve, some of those crusaders take the stage with “Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence,” a nationwide effort happening simultaneously in more than 50 cities. Locally, the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Youth Theater Project is leading the charge, mounting six short scripts by teen playwrights of extraordinary promise.
In “A Call for Help” by Pepper Fox, the true-to-life razzing among 911 dispatchers gets interrupted by three very different calls about guns all at once. Then there’s Valentine Wulf’s laugh-out-loud “The Matter at Hand,” in which a school administration’s top idea for combating gun violence is to expand “kindness week” to “kindness month.” Catch Wulf’s work now before “Saturday Night Live” does.