The lines are all memorized and the lighting and technical staging is in its final rehearsals. But when the audience starts filing into Illusion Theater this weekend they will experience a script that’s been five years in the making and written with real-life experience.
The morning after a gunman killed 13 people in northern Nova Scotia, the RCMP were unaware he had resumed shooting people until frantic 911 calls started coming in shortly after 9:30 a.m. By that time, on April 19, 2020, four more people had been shot to death and the killer was still at large.