Play tackles issue of grief & gun violence

Marissa Rex in "On the Exhale" presented by Actors Collaborative Toledo (Photo provided by ACT)

From ACTORS COLLABORATIVE TOLEDO

Actors Collaborative Toledo (ACT) opens their 2021/22 season with the area premiere of a powerful on-woman play at the Toledo Repertoire Theatre, located at 16 Tenth St, Toledo on October 9  and 10.

“On the Exhale” by Martin Zimmerman stars Perrysburg resident Marissa Rex as a woman facing an unthinkable tragedy. When a random act of gun violence tears one woman’s world apart, she finds herself caught in the cross hairs of power lost and, very possibly, regained.

Directed by Jeffrey Albright, this tour-de-force about motherhood and loss; grief and resilience; forgiveness and reconciliation.

“On the Exhale” is a carefully wrought study of a mother undone by loss. The play approaches the subject of American gun violence from a startlingly original perspective.

Show times are Oct. 9 at 8p.m. and Oct. 10 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.act419.org. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for seniors and college students, and $10 for high school students (16+).