The Proprietor (Eddie Cooper) of the nightmarish fairground where they meet tells them he has a cure for their problems, and that it is a gun. The characters of Assassins, each of whom will eventually attempt to kill a US president, all feel betrayed, forgotten, left behind by those who matter. It’s about why America seems to love her weapons so. It’s about what we’ve all been living through over the past year, the past two years, the past five years, and what it’s brought out in the country. Yet despite the repeated image of guns leering out of posters and programs in this show, Assassins is not just about weapons. And the second you see a gun point across the stars-and-stripes-painted set, you’re going to think of the last American mass shooting you heard about. “What a wonder is a gun,” a character muses early on in Assassins, now revived in an excellent production at Classic Stage Company.
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