Horror and disgust seem as if they are the only rational responses to the slaughter of innocents. "The Amish Project" seeks to reveal why forgiveness is equally valid. Except that playwright Jessica Dickey never sufficiently widens the view in this 75-minute monodrama to allow for a dramatization of what in the Amish perspective allows for such a heartbreakingly generous reflex. As a result, the piece feels incomplet…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:47PM on May 1, 2014