Selections from 24 GUN CONTROL PLAYS Get Benefit Reading at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

On June 21 at 7:30 p.m. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present a curated evening of short plays addressing the topic of gun control in the United States, selected from 24 Gun Control Plays. The reading, a benefit for the For Alison Foundation and WHAT, is curated by Nathan Winkelstein and directed by Jeffry George. Tickets are $45.

On August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were shot to death while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta. The news team was interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber of commerce, when all three were attacked by a gunman. Parker, age 24, and Ward, age 27, died at the scene while Gardner survived. Parker and Ward were the seventh and eighth journalists killed on the job in the United States since 1992.

Parker's parents, Andy and Barbara Parker, have become advocates for sensible gun legislation and are speaking about this topic across the nation. The Parkers will participate in a talk-back following the reading.

Tickets are $45 and may be purchased online at what.org, at the WHAT box office, or by calling 508-349-9428. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is located at 2357 Route 6, Wellfleet.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is the award-winning theater company that inspired "a new vigor for theater on the Cape" (New York Times). In honor of the theater's namesake, Julie Harris, WHAT continues to be a sounding board for new and bold ideas, presenting "continually adventurous theater" (Boston Globe), and year-round programming.