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Jessica Dickey Podcast with Post-Gazette
Posted by City Theatre Company in 2010-2011, The Amish Project on April 21, 2011
posted by Molly MacLagan, Literary Management and Dramaturgy Intern
Jessica Dickey has certainly made an impact with her one-woman show, The Amish Project, now on at City Theatre, directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. The show is a fictional re-telling of the events surrounding the 2006 shooting in an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dickey wrote and stars in the show, which runs through May 8th. She recently granted a podcast interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Chris Rawson. Click on the link below to hear her talk about her inspiration and the show’s journey from an idea to a reality.
Reviews are in for The Amish Project
Posted by City Theatre Company in 2010-2011, The Amish Project on April 14, 2011
Jessica Dickey’s one-woman show, The Amish Project, weaves together fictional characters and tales based on the true events of the 2006 shootin in an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The critics have spoken, and all agree that Dickey’s portrayal is moving and her craft is impressive. Below are reviews from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and blogger Gordon Spencer.
For more information about The Amish Project, go to http://www.citytheatrecompany.org/Amish_Project.html or call 412-431-CITY (2489).
Post Gazette review by Kate Luce Angell:
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11102/1138637-500.stm?cmpid=newspanel0
Review by Pittsburgh blogger Gordon Spencer:
http://gordonspencerwrct.blogspot.com/2011/04/theatre-review-amish-projec-at-city.html
Jessica Dickey speaks to Trib about Amish Project
Posted by City Theatre Company in News on April 7, 2011
posted by Molly MacLagan, Literary Management and Dramaturgy Intern
The Amish Project, written and performed by Jessica Dickey and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, opens on Friday. The one-woman show was written in response the 2006 Nickel Mines shooting, and explores the events surrounding the tragedy through the eyes of seven fictional characters. Read an interview with Jessica Dickey in today’s Tribune-Review by clicking this link: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/theater/s_730999.html
For more information, or for tickets, call 412-431-CITY (2489).
The Amish Project opens Friday
Posted by City Theatre Company in News on April 7, 2011
posted by Molly MacLagan, Literary Management and Dramaturgy Intern
Friday night, Jessica Dickey’s solo show, The Amish Project, opens at City Theatre. The fictional piece written in response to the 2006 Nickel Mines shooting, premiered at the 2008 International Fringe Festival in New York. Dickey weaves together the stories of seven fictional individuals somehow involved in the shooting or the surrounding community. All the characters are portrayed by Dickey, who wanted to use the play to explore forgiveness.
Click the video below to watch the trailer for The Amish Project.
In describing the process of writing The Amish Project, Dickey says “I learned that the boundary between fact and fiction is a fraught one… I was highly aware through the entire process that somewhere out there are the real people who went through this event—the widow of the Nickel Mines gunman and her children, the Amish families of the girls who were targeted in the shooting… In an effort to balance the conflicting desires to remain sensitive to the real people who were affected by the shooting, while giving myself creative license to write an unflinching play, I purposefully did not research the gunman or his widow, nor did I conduct any interviews of any kind. The characters in The Amish Project are fictional, and should not be misconstrued as the real people.” To learn more about the making of The Amish Project, check out the website at http://www.amishproject.com/.
Check back soon for more information about The Amish Project.
Change of date for audio described performance of Amish Project
Posted by City Theatre Company in News on April 7, 2011
posted by Kristen Link, Director of Education
Due to a scheduling conflict the date for the audio described performance of The Amish Project, written and performed by Jessica Dickey and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, has been moved to May 1st. Open captioning will also be offered on May 1st.
If you have questions, or would like more information about audio described performances, please don’t hesitate to contact the City Theatre box office at 412-431-CITY (2489). We hope to see you there
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