Event Information
The Castle Community
121 Broadway Ave N.Rochester, MN 55906
About
The Laramie Project
By Moises Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by James Douglass
April 16-18, 23-25, at 7 p.m.
April 19 & 26 at 1 p.m.
Castle Community, Les Fields Hall
121 N. Broadway Ave
Rochester, MN 55906
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left 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. Moises 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, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating.