| Description of Event: | *Remarkable . . (a) probing and distinctive theatre piece. . . assembled with care, compassion and dollops of comic relief. . .* - Daily News
*An amazing piece of theatre. . .Out of the Shepard tragedy is wrenched art.* - The New York Post.
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked a nation. The Tectonic Theatre Project went to Laramie, Wyoming in the aftermath of Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder. After two years and two hundred interviews, *The Laramie Project* emerged. Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is 60 of their voices that we hear in this theatre piece. |
