Capuchino High School presents "The Laramie Project" March 12, 2009

In October of 1998, Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten and tied to a fence and left to die because of his sexual orientation.

Members of Tectonic Theater Project in New York traveled to Laramie with these questions:
What can we as theatre artists do as a response to this incident?
Is theatre a medium that can contribute to the national dialogue on current events?

So, in November 1998, four weeks after the murder of Matthew Shepard, nine members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, to collect interviews that might become material for a play. Little did they know that they would devote two years of their lives to this project. They returned to Laramie six times over the course of the next year and a half and conducted over two hundred interviews.

The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie, Wyoming in the year after the murder. We have 23 actors portraying more than seventy different people in their own words. Matthew Shepard is not a character in the play—nor is his brutal and savage killing depicted on stage. The play dispels the simplistic media stereotypes and explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

The Capuchino Drama Department is extremely proud to be producing this play and to continue the discussion of tolerance, compassion and understanding.

Tickets will be on sale by calling the CAP theatre department or at the door.

The show runs three nights only: March 12, 13, 14 at 7:00pm.

Hate is not a Californian value.