The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later–An Epilogue October 6, 2010

Tectonic Theater Project
One play: Adult $32 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $26

Both plays: Adult $50 | University Park Student $20 | 18 and Younger $40

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, and left to die. Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, where they conducted more than 200 interviews with townspeople. From those interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town in the year after the murder. A reviewer for the Associated Press calls The Laramie Project, which has become one of the most frequently produced plays in America, “astonishing. Not since Angels in America has a play attempted so much: nothing less than an examination of the American psyche at the end of the millennium.”

A decade after Shepard’s death, Tectonic Theater Project members went back to Laramie to ask more questions. Has the murder had a lasting impact on the community? How has the town changed? What does Laramie tell us about life in today’s America? The results of the follow-up interviews form the basis of a sequel production, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later–An Epilogue.

Each presentation includes a post-performance discussion among the actors and audience members.

Official Website: http://www.cpa.psu.edu/events/laramie.html