VC Theatre Department presents:
The Amish Project
by Jessica Dickey
March 12 & 13 streaming all day
Presented as part of the VC Spring 2021 Virtual Staged Reading Series
This Friday & Saturday, the Ventura College Theatre Department will present the first play in its Spring 2021 Staged Reading Series, Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project. This powerful and poetic work recounts the 2006 shooting at the West Nickel Mines schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of rural Pennsylvania. Conjuring a variety of fictitious characters based off the victims and citizens in the town, The Amish Project explores how the tragedy tore apart a community filled with prejudice and misunderstanding. Though the compassionate and humbling reactions of an often misunderstood and ostracized religion, the members of the township forge a path to forgiveness and acceptance in the devastation left behind.
Runtime: 55 minutes
Free of charge. Reservations required to receive link.
For tickets and info, please visit: bit.ly/vctheatre
This production contains some strong language, the use of gun sound effects, and descriptions of violence.
