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The creative brains behind The Horatio Theater has something to say tonight. Well, others will say it, but he wrote it.  Erik Emery Hanberg will present a stage reading of his one-hour play, Counting on the Mona Lisa, tonight at 7 p.m. at the Tacoma Little Theatre.

It’s free.

And there will be a Q&A after.

Because we do things a little different in Spew land, I’m asking a couple questions before.

WEEKLY VOLCANO: What’s the play about, Erik?

ERIK EMERY HANBERG: It's about a guy who wakes up one morning to find that his print of the Mona Lisa has a big 10 spraypainted on it in bright red letters. Understandably confused, he doesn't start to panic until the next day, when he wakes up to find there is now a 9 on it.

VOLCANO: Do you have a cast of hundreds reading it tonight?

HANBERG: No, just five talented actors directed by Aaron Jacobs.

[Tacoma Little Theatre, Counting on the Mona Lisa, a stage reading, Thursday, June 11, 7 p.m., free, 210 N. I St., Tacoma]