VENICE — “The Amish Project,” which opened Friday, Nov. 8, in the 90-seat Pinkerton Theatre at Venice Theatre, is not for everyone.
For those who can deal with its subject matter, it is an extraordinary work with a cast able to capture all that happened in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 2, 2006.
On that day, Charles Carl Roberts IV entered the schoolhouse at about 10 a.m. With a handgun and a shotgun, he shot 10 female students, killing five instantly…