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Sept 4 – Sept 20, 2008
On the surface this is a docudrama about a particular and particularly horrendous 1998 hate crime, the brutal and fatal beating of a gay college senior named Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming -- population 26,687. The world-wide media coverage turned Shepard into a martyr symbolizing random acts of violence. But this is not a rehash of a widely publicized crime. Instead, that single event is reexamined within the framework of a portrait of Laramie, its citizens and their reactions to the tragedy and the effect of being in the eye of a media storm. The power of theater is used to force us to face the unsettling questions about the potential for violence in even the most ordinary corners of the American landscape.
Sept 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, 18, 20 @ 7:30 p.m.; Sept 7 @ 2 p.m.
“The Laramie Project is a terrific piece of theatre, history, and life. . . . There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you will see on the walls of the churches of the world. . . . Nothing short of stunning. . . . You should not miss a theatrical and human event that deserves standing up for, with applause, or better yet, silently, taking an important lesson profoundly to heart.” —New York Magazine
“Few playwrights have cut to the heart of tragedy so unerringly.”—The Village Voice
“Deeply moving . . . [Kaufman] has a remarkable gift for giving a compelling theatrical flow to journalistic and historical material . . . [The Laramie Project] is determined to find the light in an event of harrowing darkness.”—The New York Times
“A riveting theatrical experience.” —Variety
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