Forgiving a killer? Empathy examined in The Amish Project

The Amish Project
When: Feb. 20-23
Where: Studio 1398, 1398 Cartwright St., Granville Island
Tickets: $35 at brownpapertickets.comIn 2006, a man walked into an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. He shot and killed five girls, then turned the gun on himself.
But The Amish Project isn’t about the shooting. The play, by American writer/actor Jessica Dickey, is about what happened after the murders: The Amish community forgave the killer and embraced his family as fellow victims.
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