Thursday, April 25, 2013

THE LARAMIE PROJECT by Moises Kaufmann, Red Dragon Players, Austin High School, May 9 - 11, 2013



Austin High School Red Dragon Players AustinTX










[performing at the Larry Preas Theatre, Red Dragon Players, Larry Preas Theatre, Austin High School, 1715 W. Cesar Chavez ]

present

THE LARAMIE PROJECT

May 9 - 11, 2013


$7 adults / $5 students


In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay student registered at the University of Wyoming, was tied to a cattle fence, beaten about the head, robbed, and left to die on a bitterly cold night in October. Eighteen hours later, he was accidentally discovered by a biker, who had trouble believing that the figure he saw attached to the fence was human. Police and ambulances were dispatched, and Shepard was taken to a local hospital; all to no avail. Shepard was beyond recovery. He never regained consciousness and died several days later due to his head injuries. Two local young men were charged with the crime. The play is based on more than 400 interviews with about 100 Laramie residents, as well as journal entries from the members of Tectonic Theater Project and Kaufman, as they reflect on their own reactions to the crime and to the interviews they carried out. Structured as a documentary, it attempts to re-enact the events that occurred on that fateful night.


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