After playing for five days at the Lyric Theatre for the third time, the play the Cypress Hills Would Never be the Same came to an end on Saturday.

The play started on Tuesday and sold out all five shows it played at the Lyric. The previous two times that the play has been performed it also sold out both of its five nights.

Stew Tasche, the writer of the play, said that to be able to sell out 15 times in a row means that people are interested in the history of Cypress Hills.

"I think what it tells me, is that we had a great cast of characters and incredible musicians," he said. "It also tells me that people have a strong interest in the historical aspects of Cypress Hills."

Tashe said he was inspired at a young age to write the play from his frequent visits to Fort Walsh as a kid with his dad and grandfather.

"When you are five or a six-year-old kid, and you get to experience some of that stuff, it starts to roll around in your head, and then it becomes more important," he said. "When I found out that there was so much history there that people didn't know, I wanted to try and provide an education for people in regards to what happened in the Cypress Hills."

Tasche said that to him the history of Cypress Hills is one of the most important historical events in western Canada.

"If the Cypress Hills massacre hadn't of happened the Northwest Mounted Police wouldn't have been formed, If they hadn't bee formed the Americans would have come across the boards and taken this territory."

Tashe added that the reason he wrote the play was to inform people about the important history that Cypress Hills plays in Canadain history.

The next time Tashe thinks the play will return to the Lyric stage would be in two or three years, and that the play would feature a couple of new characters as he thinks the play isn't complete yet.

Tashe thanked the cast and crew who put so much effort into the play, and the community who came out and supported the play.