HOLYOKE — The Holyoke Community College Theater Department is staging “The Last Living Gun” this weekend.

Set in a dystopian future where metal has all but rusted into extinction, this play within a play follows a mercenary across a post-apocalyptic landscape, a la Mad Max, on an epic quest to find the last gun in existence, a “fully loaded Colt 1873 single-action revolver.”

“The Last Living Gun” is being staged Nov. 20-22 in the college’s Leslie Phillips Theater. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. each night with an additional matinee at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22. The Friday, Nov. 21, show will be ASL-interpreted.

The play is guest-directed by Cordelia Winters Dwyer, a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts Theater program.

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