The Laramie Project
by
Moises Kaufman
Directed by
Fraser Corfield
Based on over four hundred interviews with residents of the sleepy town of Laramie, Wyoming, the play explores the contradictions of ordinary people.
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Season 2010
11 – 27 Mar
Since it first opened at The Denver Theatre in March 2000, The Laramie Project has gone on to be an international phenomenon. Based on over four hundred interviews with residents of the sleepy town of Laramie, Wyoming, the play explores the contradictions of ordinary people.
On October 12, 1998, an openly gay University of Wyoming student, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, was murdered in an act of hate that shocked America. The Laramie Project, a stunningly effective ensemble theatre piece, investigates not so much the crime itself, or any one person, but rather the ethos of a place. In the tradition of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, or of Anna Deveare Smith’s Fires in the Mirror, the town of Laramie is brought to life as eight actors embody more than 60 different people in their own words — ranging from ranchers to university professors, from a lesbian waitress to a Baptist minister, from a Muslim feminist to a Roman Catholic priest.
See a young cast bring the huge range of characters to life with disarming simplicity. This is theatrical journalism at its very best.
Presented by The Australian Theatre for Young People
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