David Barker performs in "Dodging Bullets"Imagine, if you can, you've just turned 50. You're a theater professor, a well-respected mime (for real), and you're having a mid-life crisis of sorts. Then your brother-in-law tries to kill you and your sister while your 17-year-old niece watches.That's exactly what happened to David Barker, a professor at ASU's Herberger College School of Theatre and Film in July 2004. Both Barker and his sister both survived the attack which made the front page of the
David BarkerA theater experience always includes, at a minimum, you and a performer. Ideally, you both emerge transformed.
It doesn't get much more perfectly bare-bones than Dodging Bullets, a one-man show by ASU prof and local theater artist David Barker. In 65 minutes on a nearly empty stage, this apparently average middle-aged guy takes you through his interior and exterior life so far, spiraling out from and obsessively returning to one indelible moment in 2004 -- when his brother-in-law tr
