The Laramie Project
Title | The Laramie Project PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | 63 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Gay men |
ISBN | 082222450X |
THE STORY: On November 6, 1998, gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard left the Fireside Bar with Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. The following day he was discovered on a prairie at the edge of town, tied to a fence, brutally beaten, and close to death. Six days later Matthew Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado. On November 14th, 1998, ten members of Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming and conducted interviews with the people of the town. Over the next year, the company returned to Laramie six times and conducted over 200 interviews. These texts became the basis for the play The Laramie Project. Ten years later on September 12th, 2008, five members of Tectonic returned to Laramie to try to understand the long-term effect of the murder. They found a town wrestling with its legacy and its place in history. In addition to revisiting the folks whose words riveted us in the original play, this time around, the company also spoke with the two murderers, McKinney and Henderson, as well as Matthew's mother, Judy Shepard. THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER is a bold new work, which asks the question, "How does society write its own history?"
The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Title | The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later PDF eBook |
Author | Moises Kaufman |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0804170401 |
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.
The Laramie Project
Title | The Laramie Project PDF eBook |
Author | Moisés Kaufman |
Publisher | Follettbound |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Hate crimes |
ISBN | 9780329783013 |
Typescript, dated July 17, 2000. Lacks title page. Heavily marked with colored ink and highlighter. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on July 17. 2000, when videotaping the stage production at Union Square Theatre, New York, N.Y. The production opened on May 18. 2000, and was directed by Moisés Kaufman.
The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Title | The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later PDF eBook |
Author | Moises Kaufman |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0804170398 |
Two classic plays in a single volume: One of the most-performed theater pieces in America about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard and the town in which it happened, joined by an essential and moving sequel to the original play. "A terrific piece of theater, history, and life.... Nothing short of stunning.... A theatrical and human event.” —New York magazine 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.
Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Title | Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later PDF eBook |
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ISBN | 9781531187279 |
A Study Guide for Moises Kaufman's "The Laramie Project"
Title | A Study Guide for Moises Kaufman's "The Laramie Project" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1410350746 |
A Study Guide for Moises Kaufman's "The Laramie Project," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
The Laramie Project
Title | The Laramie Project PDF eBook |
Author | Moisés Kaufman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Gay men |
ISBN | 9780739420379 |
"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 the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews as well as their own experiences, Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience. The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder, using eight actors to embody more than sixty different people in their own words--from rural ranchers to university professors. The result is a complex portrayal that dispels the simplistic media stereotypes and explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable"--Jacket.