Amish Project, The

• Jessica Dickey
• Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium/21st Century
• 1F
• ISBN: 9780573698880

"Extraordinary... compelling... the play is also a remarkable piece of writing."

New York Times

• Full Length Play
• Drama
• 90 minutes

• Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
• Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
• Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
• Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

• Performance Group:
• Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

• Casting: 1F
• Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
• Casting Notes: A single actress performs all of the roles in the play. Distinctions between characters are made by changes in the tonal qualities and pitch of the actress' voice; through her stance, posture, and gesture. She glides fluidly from one personality to the next.

ANNA – Amish girl, age 14. Victim of the shooting.
CAROL STUCKEY – Widow of the gunman, age 31. English/non-Amish.
VELDA – Amish girl, age 6. Sister of Anna. Victim of the shooting.
BILL NORTH – English/non-Amish man, 50s. Scholar and professor on Amish culture, as well as friend and spokesman to several Amish families affected by the shooting.
AMERICA – Hispanic girl, age 16. Pregnant. Works in the local grocery store.
EDDIE STUCKEY – The gunman of schoolhouse shooting, age 33. English/non-Amish. Killed himself at the end of the schoolhouse attack.
SHERRY LOCAL – English/non-Amish woman, age 53. Resident of Nickel Mines, PA.