The Laramie Project, one of the most-performed theater
pieces in America, has become a modern classic. In this expanded
edition, it is joined by an essential and moving sequel to the
original play.
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence
outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act
of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s
death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of
the town, the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Moisés
Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie
and conducted more than 200 interviews with its citizens. From the
transcripts, the playwrights constructed an extraordinary chronicle
of life in the town after the murder.
In The Laramie
Project: Ten Years Later, the troupe revisits the town a decade
after the tragedy, finding a community grappling with its legacy and
its place in history. The two plays together comprise an epic and
deeply moving theatrical cycle that explores the life of an American
town over the course a decade.