The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later
by Moises Kaufman.
New Moon Theatre Company and Emerald Theatre company are cooperatively producing these two amazingly relevant and powerful productions!
Den-Nickolas Smith will direct "The Laramie Project" and Gene Elliott will direct "10 Years Later".
June 5 - 14, 2015; "The Laramie Project" @ Theatreworks, 2085 Monroe Ave.
June 12 - 28, 2015; "10 Years Later" @ Evergreen Threatre, 1705 Poplar Ave.
SPECIAL EVENTS: Each production...
The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later
by Moises Kaufman.
New Moon Theatre Company and Emerald Theatre company are cooperatively producing these two amazingly relevant and powerful productions!
Den-Nickolas Smith will direct "The Laramie Project" and Gene Elliott will direct "10 Years Later".
June 5 - 14, 2015; "The Laramie Project" @ Theatreworks, 2085 Monroe Ave.
June 12 - 28, 2015; "10 Years Later" @ Evergreen Threatre, 1705 Poplar Ave.
SPECIAL EVENTS: Each production will have a special "Talk Back" after the following production dates: Laramie Project: Saturday, June 6. Laramie Project 10 Years Later: Saturday, June 20.
Synopsis
The Laramie Project. 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. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. 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. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. 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. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Ten years later on September 12th, 2008, five members of Tectonic returned to Laramie to try to understand the long-term effect of the murder. They found a town wrestling with its legacy and its place in history. In addition to revisiting the folks whose words riveted us in the original play, this time around, the company also spoke with the two murderers, McKinney and Henderson, as well as Matthew's mother, Judy Shepard. THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER is a bold new work, which asks the question, "How does society write its own history?"
The Cast:
The Laramie Project
Burton Bridges
Sam Eldred
Gordon Ginsberg
Jessie Hinch Miller
Wade Murphy
Jeanie Nelson
Leslie North
Den-Nickolas Smith
Ryan Spearman
Caroline Sposto
Kristen Vandervort
Sylvia Wilson
The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later
Willie Derrick
Ron Gordon
Matthew Hamner
William Henry
Ruth Johnson
Leslie Lansky
Evan McCarley
Leah Roberts
Kacie Schlueter