- The Laramie Project
- Harry Hope Theatre
- By: Moisés Kaufman & Tectonic Theatre Project
- Directed b: Kelsey E. Guggenheim
- 4/24-27 2014
In 1998 outside of Laramie Wyoming, a young gay man was beaten and left to die. He was found, taken to hospital, and died several days later.
Kelsey E. Guggenheim has directed the work at the Harry Hope Theatre. Director, Guggenheim takes a situation fraught with emotion and delivers it to us with objective dispassion. The actorly tropes of crying, screaming, gnashing of teeth, and chewing the scenery are absent from this production. The understated style of the acting and directing sutures us all the more closely to the ideas of the play. The actors were all on the same page.
The set, a sort of two story high fold-out map of the state of Wyoming, allows the actors change the levels they are playing on and serves as various locations such as the hospital, the court, and the church.
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The production holds our attention and opens our mind as well as our heart. This is theatre for the thinking person. I hope we will hear from this director again.
