April 24-27, 2014
The Laramie
Project
by Moises Kaufman and Members
of the Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Kelsey
Guggenheim
Thursday- Saturday at 7:30pm,
Friday Mid-Day Matinee at 11am; Sunday at 4:00pm;
in the Harry Hope Theatre
(Shafer Hall, ground floor,
corner of High and Valley Streets, Willimantic).
TICKETS:
$5 Students and groups of 10 or
more
$10 Eastern faculty, staff,
alumni and senior citizens
$12 General public
BOX OFFICE: 860-465-5123860-465-5123
"Since it was first produced in 2000,
The Laramie Project has become one of the most performed pieces of
theater in the U.S. and made into an acclaimed HBO movie."
(huffingtonpost.com)
"One of the ten best plays of the year.
A pioneering work of theatrical reportage and a powerful stage event." (Time
Magazine)
"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." (Associated Press)
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"There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you will see on the
walls of the churches of the world…nothing short of stunning…you will be held in
rapt attention." (New York Magazine)
"THE STORY: In October
1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped,
severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie
outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not
discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area
hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault
because he was gay. Moisés 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 during the trial of the two young men accused of
killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the
town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others
were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is
fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply
moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences.
THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the
depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are
capable." (dramatists.com)
