The Laramie Project Epilogue with Laramie Project
October 12 2009, 8:00 PM
The Laramie Project Epilogue is a staged reading of a new play being presented on Broadway and various venues across the U.S. that honors the memory of murdered gay college student Matthew Shepard. This 11th anniversary presentation seeks to bring together communities to educate, debate, inspire and raise our collective consciousness of civil rights, violence and bigotry.
This presentation addresses a topic that many people believe is not appropriate for younger children. Grand Performances staff invites members of all communities to join us for this provocative reading and to stay for the community discussion that will follow.
In October 1998 Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is one of the most performed plays in America today.
From Grand Performances site:
http://www.grandperformances.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/season_schedule.show_detail/s_id/311
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