Enough NationWide Reading Against Gun Violence

#ENOUGH! and The Alcazar Theatre invites YOU to attend nationwide staged readings of this year’s plays in our community.

On October 6, 2025, six of the plays submitted through our nationwide call in Spring 2025 will be presented in an evening of readings staged simultaneously by theaters, schools, and community groups across the country.

Nearly 3,000 artists in more than 150 communities have participated across our three previous Nationwide Readings. Many have used ENOUGH! to forge meaningful community partnerships and create space for the youth of their area to be seen and heard.

Our teens are looking for answers on how to avoid becoming another statistic and saying, "Enough is enough."

Will you join them?

THE WINNING 2025 PLAYS ARE BOLD • VITAL • PROVOCATIVE

Holding Space by Abby Dougherty
When tragedy strikes, how do you respond? Thrown together after a school protest goes wrong, Katherine and Lucy must figure out what’s right as they confront their limits–and their potential–in making change.

Oh Look, Another School Shooting! by Matias Finley
After a shooting, whose story takes center stage? The victims? The shooter? Or everybody watching? A young student is forced to face the chilling reality that when truth becomes subject to competing agendas, healing becomes an afterthought.

Nobody Cares About Death by Ian Hodges
Death has written a book, and boy, does he have a lot to say. In his first televised interview, Death reveals he’s been getting a lot busier lately–and he’s really sick of visiting schools. A searing look at the cycles of violence we’ve grown too numb to break.

The Perfect Victim by Payton Aurora Jones
Between the bullet and the obituary are a hundred split-second decisions. For honor-student Malik and his best friend, Jay, the aftermath of a gunshot reveals the fragility of flawed systems, the strength of a connected community, and the injustice of stolen youth.

We Didn’t Have to Meet Here by Pace Rundlett
Four strangers meet in an unfamiliar place with absolutely nothing in common…except for the fact that they’re dead. And before they can move on, they need to understand why. A moving portrait of the stories behind the statistics in an all-American epidemic.

Under Wraps by Olivia Stanley
In a young woman’s all-too-familiar story, a lyrical love ballad twists into a nightmare of violence, secrecy, and deception. A haunting, richly poetic reminder that the pain we hide unravels us all in the end. 

There will be a Q&A session with community leaders afterward.