The co-creators of the Blyth Festival's production of "In the Wake of Wettlaufer" will be hosting a panel discussion about the play Thursday evening at the Huron County Museum in Goderich.
Kelly McIntosh and Gil Garratt will discuss the process they went through in creating the controversial play.
Garratt, the director of the play, said it was created with compassion from interviews with some of those most closely affected, including families who lost loved ones, nurses and Personal Support Workers.
The play follows a group of siblings who are in the process of moving their elderly father into long-term care. The care home where their father has been placed turns out to be one of the homes where Elizabeth Wettlaufer committed multiple murders.
After the case breaks, and the confession has been made public, the siblings become deeply concerned with the details of the case in the media, and ultimately attend the trial and the inquiry, taking in as many of the commission’s proceedings as they can and struggle to understand how it all could have happened.
The public discussion starts at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Museum in Goderich.
"In the Wake of Wettlaufer" runs at the Blyth Festival from August 7 till September 6.