On October 2, 2006, a Pennsylvania man named Charles Carl Roberts IV -- driven by an uncontrollable desire to ravish young girls -- entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse under false pretenses, used plastic ties to constrain 10 of the female students, and, aware that police cars had surrounded the building, shot to death five of the hostages, severely wounded the others, and fatally turned his firearm on himself. Intrigued by this tragedy, Jessica Dickey has created The Amish Project, a generally solid solo piece about the event, now at the Rattlestick Theater.

For 70 minutes, Dickey -- under the direction of Sarah Cameron Sunde -- imagines how those involved might have acted as the tragedy [...]