A Martin County High School student is earning national recognition for his powerful perspective on gun violence in schools.
Ian Hodges, a 16-year-old junior, is one of six winners chosen out of hundreds in the ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence national competition. His original 10-minute play, ‘Nobody Cares About Death,’ explores the emotional and societal toll of gun violence through the lens of an unusual narrator.
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“My play ‘Nobody Cares About Death’ follows the literal personification of death, a grim reaper-like character as he’s written a book and doing a TV interview quite like this one,” Hodges said. “And he’s talking about the horrible, horrible sense of gun violence in this country.”…