The Amish Project

Nov. 5-7 @ 7:30pm Nov. 8 @ 4pm

Tickets: $20 - Advance $24 - Door

On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot eight out of ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse. The emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the Amish community's response was widely discussed in the national media. The West Nickel Mines School was torn down, and a new one-room schoolhouse, the New Hope School, was built at another location.

The one-woman play, The Amish Project, is a fictional exploration of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting and the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in its wake.