Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information.Ĭlick on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices.Ī Barnes and ! A groundbreaking drama that recreates the efforts of a NYC theater troupe who interviewed a town's residents after a gay college student named Matthew Shepar. Audiences of today may find the language of many of these characters shocking. Royalty/cost information prone to change. This play's script is compiled from hundreds of hours of recorded interviews with real people living through the events the play describes, in Laramie, Wyoming, in the years of 19. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink, and the heights of compassion we are also capable of. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town.
Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.
His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital.
In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming.