num_pages: 224
description: 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 Shepards death became a national symbol of intolerance but for the people of the town the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath Moiss Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its people. From the transcripts the playwrights constructed an extraordinary chronicle of life in the town after the murder. Since its premiere The Laramie Project has become a modern classic and one of the most-performed theater pieces in America. Now in this expanded edition The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later adds an essential sequel to the original work. Revisiting the town a decade after the tragedy the troupe finds 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. 
language: English
title: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
publisher: Vintage