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The Laramie Project: The Acclaimed Play Inspired by the Murder of Matthew Shephard

Promenade Playhouse (1404 Third Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401)
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In 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming, college student Matthew Shepard was savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. A month later, The Tectonic Theater Project conducted more than 200 interviews with the townspeople. From those interviews came The Laramie Project, a brutally honest and thought-provoking play about an outraged nation and a stunned Wyoming town. The Laramie Project has been one of the last decade's most performed American plays.

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The last date listed for The Laramie Project was Saturday March 19, 2011 / 8:00pm.

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Having been able to see this wonderful play makes me wonder how much have we actually progressed towards equality in our society since Matthew Shepard's death more than 12 years ago.

Thsi small theater let's the audience get immersed in the play and all of the actors did a wonderful job playing more than one character with enough ease and character differences to make you relate to each of them without feeling that they were being overly dramatic.
Written on Mar 07 2011

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More Information About The Laramie Project

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Quotes & Highlights

  • Check out the Matthew Shepard Foundation website.

Description

Directed by: Natalia Lazarus

The Laramie Project, Moisés Kaufman’s internationally acclaimed play, began one month after a horrific crime occurred in the city of Laramie, Wyoming. Members of Kaufman’s theatrical group, Tectonic Theater Project, volunteered to travel with their director from New York City to the wide-open ranges of the West in order to gather in-person interviews from Laramie’s populace. The idea was to capture the emotions, reflections, and reactions of the people who were most closely related to the crime — the brutal beating and subsequent death of a young, gay college student. Was this a hate crime? Or was it a random, senseless assault and robbery? No matter which, Kaufman’s objective was to explore the issues of homosexuality, religion, class, economics, education, and nontraditional lifestyles through the residents’ raw responses to the incident.

Time magazine called The Laramie Project “A pioneering work and a powerful stage event.”