Engineering in Society

Stage Productions

The Anorak

A one-man show about "Montreal Massacre" killer Marc Lépine.

FREE ADMISSION!

Date: Friday, March 18, 2005

Time: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Where: Beamish-Munro Hall, Room 313

Produced by All And One Theatre along with Critical Stage Company.*

The play will be followed by a discussion.

Adam Kelly’s one-man show is about killer Marc Lépine. Kelly’s understated performance forces the audience to witness the disintegration of a dysfunctional personality. Lépine was abused by his father, shunned by his peers and rejected in his attempts to join the army and to study engineering. At last, he is accepted for something: a gun permit. This triggers voices in his head which urge him to spill women’s blood.

By the time Kelly’s Lépine takes off his anorak jacket and wraps it around the Luger’s still-hot barrel so he can put it in his mouth for his final act, you will be compelled to reflect not on how this could have happened, but on the thin line between aggravated social failure and murderous dementia.

Adam Kelly has written two feature length screenplays: The Fall of the Petunias and The Anorak. The Anorak is being optioned for film and was named the Montreal Gazette's Best of 2004.

* http://www.criticalstage.co.uk/

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