I'm working as an assistant stage manager for a community theater production of A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin...and that has got me thinking very hard about safety, especially after the tragic events on the set of Rust this week.
Our play famously includes a suicide by gunshot. The character in question handles the gun in two different scenes. I know our firearm is a dead weapon--purely a prop without even the possibility to be loaded, let alone fire a projectile or even a blank--and we have staged the scene so that the gunshot occurs offstage, with only the sound of the shot heard.
Still, I wonder if our audiences--we open in 11 days--will have the recent tragedy on their minds when they see the gun on our stage...and be thinking of what could happen if that gun did fire?
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