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'The Amish Project' Heading To Oakton College

In 2006, five Amish girls were killed during class in Pennsylvania. Now, Jessica Dickey has put together a "powerful" play that will be showing at Oakton Community College for September.

Examine the nature of forgiveness, faith, and compassion in Oakton Community College’s staged reading of Jessica Dickey’s powerful work, The Amish Project.

Taking as its subject the 2006 killing of five girls at an Amish school in Pennsylvania, the piece explores the shooting through the eyes of seven community members – some fictional, some drawn from life, but all touched by the events of the day and its aftermath.

Presented by the Performing Arts at Oakton, The Amish Project will be performed at the college’s Studio One, 1600 East Golf Road, Des Plaines on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 for general admission.

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