Emma Men to the right, women to the left in this theatre as we sit to watch Finn McGee portray Marc Lepine, the killer of fourteen women in Montreal in 1989.
On 6th December 1989, Marc Lépine, armed with a legally obtained semi-automatic rifle and hunting knife, entered a mechanical engineering class at the École Polytechnique. He ordered the women to one side of the classroom, and instructed the men to leave.
The lone, unremarkable figure of Lepine describes, through an impressively delivered monologue, what it is to be Marc Lepine. Throughout the play, the audience try to understand Lepine and what made him kill these women.
Finn McGee expertly delivers the quiet boy we all knew at school and his journey to hatred of women and his life. It’s a powerful play, especially as Lepine seems so ordinary yet troubled enough to see killing as the answer.
The Anorak – No Frills Theatre Company
